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1 Poem 48 i "My madness is a burnt orange fox", Gemma White , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 37 no. 2 2023;
1 Poem 40 i "The dream was dressed in black fishnets The dream was to loud The dream was", Gemma White , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 37 no. 2 2023;
1 Poem 9 i "Dear Nick C I’m ashamed to write to you I’m not worthy I’ll never be that washed", Gemma White , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 37 no. 2 2023;
1 1 y separately published work icon Oh My Rapture Gemma White , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2022 26293807 2022 selected work poetry 'In Oh My Rapture, Gemma White draws on her own lived experiences with bipolar, and her attempts to transcend it through the power of her imagination and the creation of art. Entwined throughout the poems in this collection are allusions to themes in The Red Hand Files, as every poem is a direct response to a different file. Yet each poem also stands on its own, a testament to fandom but with a self-awareness that imbues each piece of writing with unique insights from the poet herself.' 

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1 Professional Dreamers i "professional dreamers do not show", Gemma White , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;
1 On Valentines Day Gemma White , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 264)
1 y separately published work icon Furniture is Disappearing Gemma White , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2014 7276100 2014 selected work poetry

'Starkly unaware of herself and struggling to make the passage from child to adult, the narrator in this collection points the finger, repeatedly exposes her heart and wonders why things just never seem to work out. Join in her flirtations with strangers, intoxicating relationships and explorations to the edge of the void.

'This is poetry of the imagination where madness grows, memory holds sway and the night is an octopus “awkwardly getting caught. Tentacles fastening onto telegraph poles…”' (Publication summary)
1 Review : Fixing the Broken Nightingale by Richard James Allen Gemma White , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Melbourne Spoken Word , June 2014;
— Review of Fixing the Broken Nightingale Richard James Allen , 2014 selected work poetry
1 Photographs i "Day a grey chiaroscuro", Gemma White , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , 28 April no. 10 2013;
1 When You Showed Me the Stars i "The moon hung from the sky like a dead thing", Gemma White , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013; (p. 205) The Age , 16 February 2013; (p. 33)
1 Incoherence i "Tonight, I’m having", Gemma White , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2013;
1 Friendship i "At Meredith we stayed up all night", Gemma White , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2013;
1 Crimson Encounter i "I am seeing red. Bright red nail polish", Gemma White , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , April 2013; Regime , no. 3 2014; (p. 8)
1 Wanted : Poet i "Who addresses countries as if they're people", Gemma White , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Green Fuse 2010; (p. 20) Award Winning Australian Writing 2011 2011; (p. 18)
1 Remains i "Sip by Sip", Gemma White , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Dog , vol. 8 no. 15 2009; (p. 72)
1 The Night Does Not Creep i "The night does not creep;", Gemma White , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Page Seventeen , no. 7 2009; (p. 97)
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