Selected anthologies and journals:
Stokes’ work has appeared in many anthologies and journals including:
Antipodes (USA),
Australian Poetry Ltd. (Members anthology,2011),
Blake Prize for Poetry - Blake Prize Ltd., electronic anthology, 2008,
Conversations, Summer (Molonglo Press Australia),
Island (Tasmania),
Meanjin (Australia),
Poetry and prose international ebooks "Love", "Travel", "War" and "Betrayal"
"Dazzled" (University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize),
The Night Road (Newcastle Poetry Prize),
Ribbons of Steel (Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle, 1999),
Henry Kendall Prize (NSW Central Coast anthologies),
Voices (National Library Australia),
Woorilla (Victoria).
Selected Essays: Transmission of Azimuth without marks found; Papers, NSW Institute Surveyors Australia
Ancient landscapes: field patterns and countryside recreation in Surrey; Polytechnic N. London
Swamping a village: The Woughton Papers; Milton Keynes Development Corp. U.K.
The Meaning of poetry: The Owl and the Pussycat; ACT Writers Centre Newsletter
Gotham City: An Essay on memory, John Stokes, New England 2012
Interview essay: Rochford Street Review, 2016
Stokes’ work has appeared in many anthologies and journals including:
Antipodes (USA),
Australian Poetry Ltd. (Members anthology,2011),
Blake Prize for Poetry - Blake Prize Ltd., electronic anthology, 2008,
Conversations, Summer (Molonglo Press Australia),
Island (Tasmania),
Meanjin (Australia),
Poetry and prose international ebooks "Love", "Travel", "War" and "Betrayal"
"Dazzled" (University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize),
The Night Road (Newcastle Poetry Prize),
Ribbons of Steel (Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle, 1999),
Henry Kendall Prize (NSW Central Coast anthologies),
Voices (National Library Australia),
Woorilla (Victoria).
Selected Essays: Transmission of Azimuth without marks found; Papers, NSW Institute Surveyors Australia
Ancient landscapes: field patterns and countryside recreation in Surrey; Polytechnic N. London
Swamping a village: The Woughton Papers; Milton Keynes Development Corp. U.K.
The Meaning of poetry: The Owl and the Pussycat; ACT Writers Centre Newsletter
Gotham City: An Essay on memory, John Stokes, New England 2012
Interview essay: Rochford Street Review, 2016
The Invisible Thread – 100 years of words (Halstead Press, 2012)
Lost
From “The Invisible Thread”
They are trawling for a woman
in the Bega lagoon. Lotus flowers
remember. They open and
close their white flesh;
delicate rings are her watery promise,
her last kiss to the men at noon.
Here are the orange uniforms.
Here is the generator, the incident station,
mud-combed and finger stroked,
she may be there, in the bed, maybe not.
Either way, they reckon she’s guilty.
Here are the fresh girls
on the shoreline. They shiver.
They touch their white flesh,
they are looking away from the naming
voices over black water.
Lost
From “The Invisible Thread”
They are trawling for a woman
in the Bega lagoon. Lotus flowers
remember. They open and
close their white flesh;
delicate rings are her watery promise,
her last kiss to the men at noon.
Here are the orange uniforms.
Here is the generator, the incident station,
mud-combed and finger stroked,
she may be there, in the bed, maybe not.
Either way, they reckon she’s guilty.
Here are the fresh girls
on the shoreline. They shiver.
They touch their white flesh,
they are looking away from the naming
voices over black water.
