Poems

2025

The Poetics of Sentience, 18 poems featured in the Gifts from the Sentient Forest Exhibition, Villa Vinkkeli Gallery, Rovaniemi, Finland, 10 June–1 August [link]

As I Lie Awake in the Forest, How to Heap Praise on a Tiger Snake, Tree Breaths, and Nocturne I. Spadina Literary Review, iss. 43, 2025, in press [link]

Nocturne II, Lightning Culminating in Jarrah, Lampreys, and The Wollemi Pine, AUIS Literary Journal, in press [link]


2024

Vitalities, Indelible Literary and Arts Journal, iss. 8, 101–102 [link]


2023

Knowledge, Body, Landscape, Time, and Place. The Power of Plants: An Ancient Vitality. Exhibition, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China. 12 May–16 July 2023 [link]

Best Entry, Posthuman Plants, Exhibition, Posthumanist Aesthetics: New-Age Representations, Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University, India [link]

Canticle, Plant Ekphrasis, and Duh: On Remembering Plant Names. Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, vol. 28, iss. 1, 20–25 [link]
 
Rock Orchid, Port Jackson Fig Tree, Gorge-Dwelling Plant, and Moreton Bay Fig Tree. AUIS Literary Journal, iss. 2, 45–51 [link]
 
Wedge Acres. One Good Memory. Silver Birch Press. Jan. 10, 2023 [link]  


2022

Artificial Intelligence, The Thought Mare, and Bestiary. Creative Flight, vol. 3, iss. 2, 29–37 [link1] [link2] [link3]

Gorge. RILE: Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocrítica, vol. 8, no. 1, 239–241 [link]

The Inner Lives of Garnishes. Biophilia, autumn issue, 12 [link]
 

2021

Tamarind, in J. Ryan, P. Vieira, & M. Gagliano (eds), The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM), 381 [link]

Rusty Ficus. RILE: Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocrítica, vol. 7, no. 1, 121 [link]

 
2020

Seeing Trees: A Poetic Arboretum. Co-authored with G. Phillips. (Pinyon Publishing, Montrose, CO) [link] [order on Amazon]
 
Tamarind, Brush-Tailed Black Wallaby, Excubitorium, and Figwarts. Dispatches. Reprinted in M. Newell, B. Quetchenbach & S. Nolan, eds., Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary (Brooklyn, NY: Spuyten Duyvil), 310–14 [link]

Immortelle and Variations on the Theme of Gorges. Tamkang Review, vol. 51, no. 1, 115–118 [link]

Looking for Marianne North. Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, vol. 10, iss. 1, 1–3 [link]

 
2019

Racecourse Lagoon, Uralla, New South Wales. In J. Ryan and L. Chen (eds.), Australian Wetland Cultures: Swamps and the Environmental Crisis (Lexington Books, Lanham, MD), 5 [link]

Siam: Four Poems. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, vol. 56, iss. 1, 162–165 [link]

Forest Poems. Translated to Chinese. Shilin: The Magazine of the Writers' Association of Heilongjiang Province, China, vol. 231, 87–91 [link]

To Spring Hope, Here and There. In J. O’Rourke, The Butterfly Blessing (John O'Rourke, Perth, WA) [link]

Tree: 5 Sonnets. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment, vol. 10, no. 1, 226–230 [link]

 
2018

Florilegium: Botanical Art and Poetry. Exhibition at The Two Canaries of Climate Change: Island and Polar Places: Conference of the South Pacific Chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SPACLALS), February, 2018 [link]

Gorge: scriptorium | tree | excubitorium. MA Creative Writing Thesis, Teesside University, UK [link]

The Village. Unpublished poetry, photos, and commentary, Teesside University, UK [link]

Seaweed: A Book of Algae (Aralia Publishing, Armidale, NSW) [link]

Ode to Luang’s Rice Paddy. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, vol. 55, iss. 1,  79–81 [link]

Mang Mon. Anak Sastra Literary Journal, iss. 32, 51 [link]

 
2017

Primavariants: Conversations Across a Continent. Co-authored with G. Phillips (ICLL Press, Mount Lawley, WA) [link]

The Earth Decides (Cyberwit Press, Allahabad, India) [link] [order on Amazon]

Between Art and Poetry: New Perspectives on Tablelands Flora. Exhibition of Botanical Art and Poetry, Readers’ Companion, Armidale, NSW, Australia, November 2017 [link]

Exhibition viewbook published as Ryan, J. & D. Mackay. Between Art and Poetry (ICLL Press, Mount Lawley, WA 2017) [link]

Rock Orchid Hyphae. International Journal of Contemporary Humanities, vol. 1, iss. 1, 83–89 [link]

 
2016
 
The Future. Landscapes: Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, vol. 7, iss. 1, 1 [link]
 
 
2014
 
A Voluptuous Year. In D. Haskell (ed.), Cullen Wines Poetry Anthology (Margaret River Press, Margaret River, WA) [link] [order on Books for Cooks]

Dunking Chooks, Murder at Twilight Lake, and On Finding an Animal at Burns Beach. All Living Language (City of Joondalup/Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Joondalup, WA) [link]

 
2013
 
Botanical Poems. Fremantle Poets 3: Performance Poets (Fremantle Press, Fremantle, WA) [listen to Inside a Jarrah Tree] [listen to Bush Tucker] [order on Bandcamp]

Chaga: An Eclogue in Fragments. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, no. 10, 143–145 [link]

 
2012
 
Two With Nature: Illustrations by Ellen Hickman and Poetry by John Ryan (Fremantle Press, Fremantle, WA) [link]

Sunlight of Ordinary Days (Twelve Poets of Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre, Joondalup, WA) [link]
 
Physis/Flower and Three Botanical Haiku. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, no. 9, 60–61 [link1] [link2]


2011
 
Katoomba Incantation: Poetry (Cyberwit Press, Allahabad, India) [link] [order on Amazon]

A Bestiary of Wild Flowers. Reading, As Is Painting, So Is Poetry: The Poetry of Sidney Nolan's Panel Paintings, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia [link] 
 
Bush Tucker. Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, vol. 4, iss. 2, 67–68 [link]
 
Notes on a Dying Chook, Wheatbelt Pneuma, and Sheoak Reverie. dotdotdash, iss. 6 [link1] [link2] [link3]

Quenda. Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Patron’s Prize, Australia [link1] [link2]

A Colony of Royal Hakea. Harvests of the New Millennium, vol. 4, no. 1, 86 [link]
 
I Lose My Balance Stretching for Wattle Pods. Taj Mahal Review, vol. 10, no. 1, 144 [link]

Metanoia: From Cape Naturaliste and Three Peaks Triptych. Yellow Field, no. 5 [link]

The Walking Poems. Peter Cowan Centre e-Magazine [link]

Hemotography. Taj Mahal Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 123 [link]

Understanding Parrot Bush. Side Stream, iss. 28 [link]

Qualup Bell. Bukker Tillibul, vol. 5 [link]

Oscillations. CREATRIX, iss. 13 [link]


2010
 
Calligram – Nerved Hakea. SWAMP: An Online Magazine for Postgraduate Creative Writing, iss. 6 [link]
 
Under the Wattle Scrub, Coalseam Park. First Prize, Creatrix Poetry Prize, Australia [link]

On the Desirability of Wildflowers Whilst Dogwalking. Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, vol. 4, iss. 1, 1 [link]

Walking Libations. Highly Commended, Gum Blossoms Poetry Prize [link]

You Are Known by the Company You Keep. Philament, iss. 15, 98 [link]
 
Sunday Zamia Swagger. Perilous Adventures, no. 4 [link]

When Poems Like Bedbugs Bite. Ricochet, iss. 2, 8 [link]

Orchid Anima. Perilous Adventures, no. 2 [link]

First Kangaroo Paws. Cottonmouth, iss. 19 [link]

Blood. Colloquy, iss. 20, 145–146 [link]


2009
 
Quandong Kojonup Djeran, Crossing the Fjord, and Seven Names For a Plant. SWAMP: An Online Magazine for Postgraduate Creative Writing, iss. 6 [link1] [link2] [link3]

Dispersion of Seed, Stirling Range. Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, vol. 3, iss. 2, 1–2 [link]

Inside a Jarrah Tree, A Black Tunnel Reaching Skyward. Landscapes, vol. 3, iss. 2, 1 [link]
 
Balga, Jarrahdale, Western Australia. Landscapes, vol. 3, iss. 2, 1 [link]