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1 Alligator Weed (Alternanthera Philoxeroides) i "Presenting a white paper flower", Dave Drayton , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
1 Four Boxes i "A large box is handily made of what is necessary", Dave Drayton , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 2 2023; (p. 62-65)
1 Who Will Want Me? Dave Drayton , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 19 2022;
1 y separately published work icon British P(oe)ms Dave Drayton , Tipperary (County) : Beir Bua Press , 2022 26429314 2022 selected work poetry

'British P(oe)Ms continues a poetic/political exploration that started with P(oe)Ms (Rabbit Poetry, 2017),  which collected a beau present for each Australian Prime Minister and continued with the United States’ Beaux Pres(id)ents. It employs a non-fictional, onomastic poetics to look in new light and ways at the past and present leaders of the United Kingdom. A beau present (also known as a beautiful inlaw) is a poem composed using only the letters in the name of the addressee. For example, a beau present about Robert Walpole must only use words that can be made from the letters R, O, B, E, T, W, A, L, and P.'

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1 Kings Cross 1340 i "2439 Black Creek", Dave Drayton , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Science Write Now , March no. 6 2022;
1 The Cost of a Flaming Gala Dave Drayton , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anabranch : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 2022;
1 Our Song i "cull monday", Dave Drayton , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 247 2022; (p. 58-60)
1 Centocartography, Harwood : Jaywalking i "Slice through the inverse mappings of the plane", Dave Drayton , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 Return to Commute i "The palm tree's proud despite its oddness", Dave Drayton , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 3 2022; (p. 110-113)
1 Centocarography, San Francisco: Dirty Dancing i "That fierce dying of humans consumed", Dave Drayton , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 June no. 105 2022;
1 Epithalamium for William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck & Lady Dorothy Cavendish Dave Drayton , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry d'Amour 2021 2021; (p. 21)
1 X + i "the truth is out there, I want to believe", Dave Drayton , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 222)
1 Centocartography, Campsie : That Wild Society i "The gull giving way on the left", Dave Drayton , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 27 2021;
1 How to Read the Road Dave Drayton , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2021;
1 [Centocartography : Campsie] Composing Wonder Dave Drayton , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 14-15)
1 Andrew Bonar Law Dave Drayton , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 Cook 2614 i "4563 Black Mountain +", Dave Drayton , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 What Separates a Cobweb and a Spiderweb i "what separates a cobweb and a spiderweb is", Dave Drayton , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
1 The Youthfulness of Cliffs i "the youthfulness of cliffs cannot persuade us all to gather", Dave Drayton , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , no. 31 2019;
1 The Main Artefacts Are Very Archaic i "brush the floor of Freud’s enclosure an onlooker trapped", Dave Drayton , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 106-107)
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