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Natalie Rose Dyer

Natalie Rose Dyer is a poet, essayist, and academic who lives in Naarm (Melbourne), on unceded Wurundjeri land. She teaches into the Creative Writing Program at The University of Melbourne where she is Honorary Research Fellow. Natalie is the recipient of The Peter Steele Poetry Award, 2021, and was highly commended for the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, 2024, for poems from her forthcoming first poetry collection. Natalie’s poetry is widely published in literary journals, including Meanjin Quarterly, Australian Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review. Her book Notes on a Wild Fluidity was published with Palgrave (2020). And Nothing But a Fine Nerve Meter; New Maps at the Planetary Turn was published (2025) with Revolutionaries Press.

https://natalierosedyer.com/blog/boundary-speak-diaries

Wolf Blooms

The morning is a thought field ignited by bird lark; a river of cerebration. I contemplate horse skins of light––the marigold sun through a prism of glass. One child emerges, then another. Their soporific faces reveal a discernment. I take …

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Order of Birds

First are Kookaburras tipping sun into a saucer of algid earth, into ghostly looms of morning, slipping a cure into our sleeping mouths. The dream world thrashes out scenarios of human desire, subjugation, subsides to the libertarian musings of birds …

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Dressing for Paradise

I remember that time I held my mother’s hand led her across the parkland temporarily blinded, her infected conjunctiva spindly red; burst open veins squirrelled about her white opal hemisphere or sclera, her iris brown green with a lint of …

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