Photo: Liz Crothers

Lighthouse Literary Festival. Photo by Liz Crothers.

Photo: Donna Squire. Bronze Stories: Geelong Unearthed.

Bronze Stories: Geelong Unearthed. Photo by Donna Squires.

Photo: Phoebe Powell

New Shoots. Photo by Phoebe Powell.

Victorian Premier’s Literary Award winners 2022.

LISTEN

Television,’ Reading of my poem for ABC Radio National, 23 July 2021.


WATCH

‘Night Pictures,’ from Nature by Andy Ford, recording from Summer Hill Church, 12 October 2019.

'Boca que de la vida', Video recording of performance of 'Narcissism' at the International Poetry Festival in Medellin, Colombia, 2017.

'White Australia,' Video poem on Vimeo, 2015. 


READ

Essays

‘Writing and its Demons,’ Meanjin 78.3 (2019): 36-43.

Moved by words: How poetry helps us express our feelings,’ The Conversation, 10 June 2021.

Multimedia collaborations

Magic’, Island Online, 14 March 2024.

Pyramid Scheme,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 13 May 2024.

Interviews

Five Questions with Maria Takolander,’ The Book Bird, 30 July 2021.

Prithvi Varatharajan Interviews Maria Takolander,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 1 February 2015.

Fiction

'Three sisters', Electric Literature 111 (2 July 2014).

A Roankin Philosophy of Poetry,’ Australian Book Review (inaugural winner of the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize), 2010.

Poems

'Revisiting Chernobyl,' Cordite Poetry Review 86 (2018).

‘Nox,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 75 (2016).