Bio

Jordie Albiston has published eight poetry collections. Two of her books have been adapted for music-theatre, both enjoying seasons at the Sydney Opera House. Jordie's work has won many awards, including the 2010 NSW Premier's Prize. She lives in Melbourne.

—o   —peace   —peace   —shattering everything   —finding me
everywhere   —leave me with my wounds   —please pack up & take
the back door   —I can't pronounce O Schöne Frieden or even go
near some euphoric psalm   —I am upended inside this terrible calm
& losing that sense of heavenly rush I smash into happy like a glass

o lovely peace the hasty things worry
me horses bad choices the twenty-
first century I hate how she says your
order's been fast-tracked & trees whizz
by I like when the camera says freeze