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π. o.

π.ο. is a famous poet. Born: Greece 1951. Came to Australia 1954. Raised: Fitzroy. Reason for living: Stupidity! Occupation: Draughtsman for 40 years and now Retired Gentleman. By disposition and history is an Anarchist. Currently editing the experimental magazine UNUSUAL WORK. Won the 2020 Literary Queensland Premiers Award, and the Patrick White Award 2025.

‘We’re all containers for each other’s emotions’: π.ο. in Conversation with Sandy Caldow

I first met Sandy Caldow about 30 years ago at Qdos gallery in Lorne, a seaside town in Victoria, where i read poetry for an exhibition. We met up again in Melbourne after she’d left Lorne and moved into a house in Preston – was i in for a surprise! Shifting a worker of clay, like Sandy, into a new studio is a mammoth enterprise – the lift and shift of it is enormous – i pleaded with her to make ‘thimbles’ instead, but she was undeterred.

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‘A poet is a worker in language’: Debris Facility Interviews π.ο.

To forefront the anarchist politics within poetry is to invest in the liberatory potentiality within the agency of reading and writing.

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Nights of Excesses

for Sean O’Callaghan A Kalashnikov, is an AK-47. Americium, is an actinide, and has an Atomic number of 95. The sun, is 93 million miles away. The word punch (in Hindustani) means 5. The Dead are mourned, in Muslim cultures …

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Everything Poem, part 4

There are 455 active volcanoes in the World and blood completes a circuit of the body every 23 seconds, but you weigh 40 times as much as your brain and it’s impossible to describe a spiral-staircase [without using a finger] …

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Lebanese Poetry

He came over (to the counter), ordered a coffee, and asked me if I was Lebanese (cos he was) – I said “No” / Greek. He asked me, what I was reading and I said “Poetry”. I asked him, did …

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