Skim stone stim rock: Towards a stim poetics

By | 6 November 2026
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Tess Ezzy is a Greek-Australian poet and PhD candidate at the University of New England, where she directs the Neurodivergent Creative Methods Lab and originated Critical Neurodivergent Studies. Her poems and criticism appear in Cordite Poetry Review and M/C Journal, and she is writing Small Worlds, a book about collectors and the objects they cannot put down. She writes on Darug Country. She keeps a rock in each pocket and can tell you where both came from.

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