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Updated on May 18th 2012
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Books
2001 Corvus Ginninderra Press.
2002 Cut to the Word Ginninderra Press
2003 Into the No Zone Ginninderra Press
2006 Verbal Medicine: 21 Contemporary Clinician-Poets of Australia and New Zealand Ginninderra Press
2008 The Solution to Us Ginninderra Press
2011 The Effective Butterfly Ginninderra Press
2013 Last to Go (chapbook selected) Wagtail 125
2018 Red Song of the Red Earth Ginninderra Press Pocket Poets 55
2018 The Underwritten Plain Ginninderra Press
2019 Numbugga Dumb Bugger (illustrated by Peter Otton) Self-Published
2020 Spacewalk Ginninderra Press Pocket Poets 138
2021 Maybe Street: Selected Poems of Anna Buck Ginninderra Press
Anthologies including my work
1989 On Struggle Street (Poetry Australia 122), South Head Press: Port Melbourne 5 am; p58
2001 FreeXpresSion Poetry Yearbook:Reverie; p10
2001 Wild About the Roof, Five Islands Press; Semi-trailer smash; 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55...; Parting; pp63-5
2002 From the Anabranch, NSW Poet's Union: Intercity Express; p61
2003 Said the Rat!, Black Pepper; These dead in their studied sections; Stages of Dying; p63-6
2004 Ask The Rain, NSW Poets Union; When the cow kicks; p31
2004 The Dogs of our Lives, Gloria Yates; The Death of Atlas; p73
2006 Primary Care: more poems by physicians, University of Iowa Press; Last to Go, Morning in the bush, The muse collapses pp 65-7
2006 Verbal Medicine, edited by me, Ginninderra Press
2006 Kabitar Dui Bhumi/ Two Spaces of Poetry Nandimukh (Calcutta/ Kolkata)
2006 On Common Water: Ginninderra Press 10th birthday selection by M Byrne
2006 Sun and Sleet: NSW Poet's Union Anthology
2008 Capital Letters: Boris Books, Canberra
2010 Law & Impulse: The Poets Union Inc National Science Week Science Made Marvellous Project
2010 The Greenhouse: The Poets Union/5 Bells e-anthology no 1
2011 The Indigo Book of Australian Prose Poems ed M Byrne Indigo
2015 Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing ed Beveridge/Ogle Brandl & Schlesinger
2015 Yeats 150: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 Foley Lilliput Press Ireland
2016 First Refuge ed Nadge Ginninderra Press
2018 Wild ed Fenney Ginninderra
2019 Mountain Secrets ed Fenney Ginninderra
2020 I Protest ed Matthews Ginninderra
2020 Australian Poetry annual anthology
Poems
Port Melbourne 5 am: Poetry Australia 122 (On Struggle Street); 1989 p58
Parting: Poetry Australia 131, Spring 1991, p47
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,...: Redoubt 16, 1993, p64
A Journey there and back: Northern Perspective Vol 17 No 2 1994, p79-80
A Journey there and back: Chiron (Uni Melb. Medical Society) Vol 3 No 2 1994 p27
Scaling the Venetian Fortress at Nafplion: 4W No 2 1991 p60
Semi-trailer smash: 4W No 3 1992 p69
Day Dreaming (of showing Basho our bush block): 4W No 4 1993 p84
Tribal: 4W No 5 p151 1994
The trapped bird: Yellow Moon No 9 2001
Driving to the City: Canberra Times (Panorama) Nov 10 2001 p17
The Red Centre: 4W No 11 2000 p 27
OK, so here you are: 4W No 11 2000 p69
Waterhole: 4W No 12 2001 p35
The Death of Atlas: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
River: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
the spirit: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
History's lesson: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
space haiku: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
View from the old folks home: FreeXpresSion Vol (XI sic) VIII No 5 June 2001 p 16
Reverie: FreeXpresSion Vol VIII No 7 August 2001 p6
Inclined to the philosophical: FreeXpresSion ?issue 2001
Sadly this was not that world: Divan (on-line) 2001
Dotterel: Text (on-line) 2001
Fatherhood, some days: Muse 213 Dec/Jan 2001-2 p20
Escape: Muse 213 Dec/Jan 2001-2 p21
can't...breathe...: Muse 213 Dec/Jan 2001-2 p18
can't...breathe: The Lancet Vol 360 No 9344 November 9 2002 p1523
Last to go: Canberra Times (Panorama) June 29 2002 p17
If X-Ray is OK: Bega District News Letters 13/9/2002 p4
The world would love to love you: Bega District News Letters ?2002
expensive road: Dissent Spring 2002 p54
A storm of applause: Pelt No 6 March 2002 p33
Too busy for life: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol10 Issue 4 May 2002 p13
206 erogenous points: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol10 Issue 4 May 2002 p
Past a hero: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol10 Issue 4 May 2002 p13
These dead in their studied sections: 4W No 13 2002
Waxing illyrical: Tirra Lirra Vol 12 No 4 Winter 2002 p32
Stork's kid: Tirra Lirra Vol 12 No 4 Winter 2002 p32
Night in London: FreeXpresSion Vol IX No 1 January 2002 p14
Sicilian Market Place: FreeXpresSion Vol IX No 2 February 2002 p10
A life story (1-4): Inkshed 13 2002 pp120-2
Catatonia: Swyntax edition 5 2002 p47
Sleeper: Five Bells Autumn 2002
Stopping at the kerb: The Tablet 2002
Thirsting for the stream: The Tablet 2002
Who, numb-faced: Pendulum Issue 6 2002 p82
For Mr Howard...: Bega District News Letters Feb 2003
For Mr Howard...: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol11 Issue 10 Nov 2003 p12
There is no going back: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol11 Issue 10 Nov 2003 p12
Submarine log: Br J Med Ethics: Med Humanities 2004
Health promotion: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol12 Issue 6 July 2004 p9
These dead...: J Med Humanities Vol 25 No 2 Summer 2004 pp155-6
Imagine the unthinkable: Overland No 181 November 2005 p94
Fatherhood, some days: Aust. Family Physician Vol34 No 9 September 2005 p709
To a springtime magpie: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 6 July 2005 p10
O terrible love let go: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 2 March 2005 p18
Dial-a-:Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 1 February 2005 p16
Look at him, doctor: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 3 April 2005 p13
Got a real job: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 3 April 2005 p15
Alien life: Ripples Issue 2 2005 p17
Stages of Dying: eZAAPP (on-line) March 2005
The fourth man: eZAAPP (on-line) 2 July 2005
Spiderwebs: Pendulum Issue 9 2005 p106
Heading into town: Wet Ink Issue 1 Summer 2005 p39
Alien life: New Scientist letters 2005
Too busy for life: Medical Observer 2005
Support the head: AAMH Newsletter Issue 1 p1
Ultrasound poem #2: Five Bells Winter 2005; also AFP May 2005
Alternative life: Five Bells Spring 2005
O: Studio 103 p14 2006
In amongst the existential tropes: Southerly 1 2006
The Good Hope: Blast 3 2006
Love is a Quantum Affair: Retort Magazine April 2006 (on line) (http://www.retortmagazine.com/06/id_04.06_tim_metcalf.htm)
Potential trilogy: Retort Magazine April 2006
Phyllographic: Retort Magazine April 2006
Middle Age Sonnets: SOFTBLOW 090406 www.softblow.com
real drone: 260306 www.catalyzerjournal.com
The solution to us: Poetry Monash 73:2006
Old Cemetery at Yea: Poetry Monash 73:2006
Two wings make the bird: Canberra Times (Panorama) Dec 2nd 2006
Perpetual Horoscope: BLAST no4 2006
Population mass: Five Bells Spring 2006
(untitled Verse letter to 5 Bells Spring 2006)
Cycling for Anxiety: Poetry Monash No 74
After 'What comfort for you in my name': Poetry Monash No 74
Look at him doctor: PartyLine (National Rural Health Alliance) 2007
Rodent Fugue: Overland 188 September 2007
Four animals and a car: Five Bells Winter 2007
A day with Basho: BLAST No 6, 2007
The field of light (excerpt): National Rural Health Alliance calendar 2008
Flying doctor: SOFTBLOW Feb 2008
Support the Head: Australasian J Psychiatry 27:1 June 2008
Stork's Kid: Australasian J Psychiatry 27:1 June 2008
Stages of Dying: University of London School of the Medical Humanities blog
Development: Sustain, Autumn 2008
Recycling Music: Sustain, Autumn 2008
Look at him doctor: in A Journey to Recovery : Riverland Community Health Service, Berri S.A. 2008
An Unseen Wind: Blast 8 2008
When I'm cleaning windows: Poetry Monash no 77 2008
Crossing the street, avoiding a roasting: Canberra Times Sept 6th 2008
Mother's out of puff: Canberra Times 15th November 2008
Flying Doctor: excerpt: Partyline NHRA no34 Dec 2008
Recession to a point: Canberra Times, Panorama supplement 13/6/2009
Traffic Light: Five Bells Vol 16 2/3 p128
Wing Sheen: Poetry Monash no 78 2009
The Dizzy Ember: Poetry Monash no 79 2009
Environmental Science: 5 Bells 'The Greenhouse' e-anthology edition 1
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55... in Law & Impulse: The Poets Union Inc National Science Week Science Made Marvellous Project 2010
Full Stop: Poetry Monash no. 84 2012
Pass the Parcel: Poetry Monash no. 85 2012
The Airman rolls away: in Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing ed Beveridge/Ogle Brandl & Schlesinger 2015
Christmas 2004: in First Refuge ed Nadge Ginninderra Press 2016
Paranoid wind: in Wild Anthology GP 2018
Spacewalk: Canberra Times 2018
The Vast Importance of Knowing a Little: Commissioned by Melbourne University for Annual anatomy service
Grasp: Canberra Times 2019
Black Stump: in I Protest anthology GP 2020
Resurface: In AP anthology 2020
Weeding Coolumbooka: Canberra Times
Articles and Papers
Don't be a host when you head for the Coast: Town and Country February 1999
Ross River and Barmah Forest Disease: Rural Practice February 2000
The Evidence for the Evidence: 6th National Rural Health Conference 2001 (on-line)
Ross River Virus: Bega District News 11 Jan 2000
The lice advice: Town and Country 15 Feb 2000
Social Plan need the Community: Bega District News 22 Feb 2000
GPs should try on some genes: Aust. Doctor Weekly 14 April 2000
Ultrasound for Pelvic Congestion Syndrome: Medical Observer 31 March 2000
Blister Mite discovery: Bega District News 7 November 2000
ER3: Economic Rationalists Encounter Rural Emergency Rooms: Dissent Spring 2002 p29
Four views of the country(4 books reviewed): Voice Issue 2 2002 pp35-8
A book I can do without (A little book of calm): Voice Issue 2 2002pp41-2
Exegesis of 'These dead in their studied sections': J Med Humanities Vol 25 No 2 Summer 2004 pp156-7
Which is it to be?(Autobiog.): Voice No 9 March 2004 pp11-13
No slick professionals (Community Radio): Voice No 12 Dec 2004 pp16-9
The Poet at War: Voice No 10 June 2004 pp15-18
My favourite place (Autobiog.): South Coast Weekly Jan 10-16 2005 p10
(Autobiog. piece): Medical Observer 2005
The Lightkeeper by Verity Laughton: SEAR Newsletter Issue 7 August 2005 p3
Australia's greatest intellectual export?: Voice No 13 2005
A Community Based Virtual Bioregion Project: Voice No 17 2006
Let's put the billy back on: Voice 20 2006 pp47-9
Review of FLING 'Who will come to the rescue?': Bega District News Sept 2006
Community: the ultimate energy saver: Community Power webpage 2006
'The Kookaburra and the Snake': in Bolton, G (2007) 'Dying, Bereavement, and the Healing Arts' Jessica Kingsley, London pp165-170
'Verbal Medicine: Poetry and Healing in the Bush': 12th Keynote address to 9th National Rural Health Conference 9th March 2007 in Albury
ANZAME (Association Medical Education) pre-conference workshop at National Portrait Gallery; 'Interprorfessional learning' co-ordinated by Rebecca Vanderheide and Jo Gibson at University of Canberra School of Nursing
'Verbal Medicine: The resurgence of poetry as a healing art': International Doctor's Health Conference Sydney October 25th 2007
'Verbal Medicine: Poetry and healing in the bush' keynote address to 10th RDWA conference Adelaide November 2008 (rewritten adress from 2007
'Physician Heal Thyself' in Zadok Perspectives no 109, Winter 2009
'Dodging rednecks with a grudge' in Bolton G et al (ed.) (2010) Writing Routes Jessica Kingsley Press London
'Impact of Swine Flu education on coughing in the doctor's face during examination' letter in AustNZ J Public Health 2011 35/1 p92
'Poetry an antidote to GP stress' in Medical Observer 20/2/2009 report on inaugural CDN writer's night at AMA headquarters in Sydney; the article partly concerns my work (I was invited to be the first reader)
'Creative Doctor Profile' in Medical Observer 2011. A Q&A response with Dr Tony Chu
The Chronicle (NT Chronic Disease Network) 2011 22/4 December 2011 p22. Chronic Disease and Sleep. Metcalf T, Massey H, Wu B
Poetry Reviews by me
John Malone, Makeovers: Five Bells 2002
Laura Jan Shore, Breathworks: Voice No 4 Dec 2002 pp38-40
Stephen Oliver, Night of Warehouses: Five Bells 2002
Stephen Oliver, Night of Warehouses: (different to above): J Aust Studies 2002
Geoff Goodfellow, Poems for a Dead Father: J Aust Studies 2002
Dransfield Selected ed. J Kinsella: J Aust Studies 2002
Freida Hughes, Stonepicker: Five Bells Summer 2003 p53
Stephen Oliver, Deadly Pollen & Ballads, Satire and Salt: Five Bells Autumn 2005
Rory Steele, Obverse and Parallel Lines: Five Bells Winter 2005 pp51-2
Len Green, The Medical Convention for MOPS: Five Bells Winter 2005 pp50-1
Ouyang Yu, Foreign Matter: J Aust Studies 2005
Nora Krouk, Skin for Comfort: J Aust Studies 2005
Tony Page, Gateway to the Sphinx: Five Bells Summer 2006
David Musgrave, On Reflection: J Aust Studies 41: 2006
C Hedges, American Fascists: Voice No 22 2007
Susan Hampton, The Kindly Ones: Five Bells Winter 2007
Ross Gillett, The Sea Factory: Five Bells Summer 2007-8
Sandy Fitts "View from the Lucky Hotel': Five Bells Spring/Summer 2008/9
Michael Byrne, A Man of Emails: AP Sotto 2011
Prizes
2014 Axel Clark Prize ANU for 'A Rose Asunder': shortlisted
2013 Perth Poetry Club reader's prize for 'Regiment'
2012 Castlemaine Cup reader's prize for 'Rare Dog Salad'
2006 Wet Ink/Wannabe prize: 'Paranoid Wind'; shortlisted
2005 Rosemary Dobson Award: 'The Good Hope': Winner
2005 Reader's prize at FAW Poets on Wheels Tour, Merimbula; Real Drone; Love is a Quantum Affair; Winner
2005 ABC South-East Nat Poetry Week Comp:Heading into town' selected
2004 ACT Publisher's Awards: 'Into the No Zone' Highly Commended (2nd)
?2002 ACT Performance Slam; Ode de Merd (unpublished!); Third
2001 International Yellow Moon Prize for Nature Poetry: The Trapped Bird: Commended
2001 Bad Joyce competition: 'Joyce-tick': Winner
2001 Gunnedah Eisteddfod Haiku Competition: Western District Haiku: Commended
2000 W B Yeats (Australia and NZ) Award: 'Stages of Dying': Winner
2000 ACT Beyond the Margin Prize: 'Reaching Past': Commended
Poetry Editorship
Australian Family Physician 2005-6
Sustain 2008
Metabolism 2012 Members Anthology of Australian Poetry Ltd: on editorial team
Notes in Literature and Medicine
There are 37 on-line tutorials developed for ANU Medical School during 2004 and 2005: see my website
Miscellany
Back cover blurb for: Broder, O et al(2006) And They're Still Falling Ginninderra
Holmgren V (2008) A Sense of Direction Ginninderra
Swan Christopher (2011) Daylight Dark and Shadow: Selected Poems Limner Works
Acknowledged in Mitchell P (2003) Minor Physics Interactive Press
Poem about me 'Here to Stay' in Brophy K (2007) Mr Wittgenstein's Lion Five Islands Press p 23
I am the doctor referred to so amusingly in McMillan A (2008) Strict Rules: The Blackfella-Whitefella Tour Niblock publishing p231
Poetica is the poetry showcase for Radio National in Australia. Mike Ladd the presenter created a program about Verbal Medicine, including an interview with me. Broadcast in 2008 and again in 2011
Selected for AP Cafe Poets program, delivered at The Goose cafe Bega 2011