Philomena van Rijswijk

Poems on this web site

• Entebbe drainhole
  
• Because of the dream
  
• Oh you of little faith
  
• Our notion of the sea
  
• The boy and the cobra
  
• The lie of the land

Philomena van Rijswijk's poems can be found in many literary journals (Island, Hecate) and anthologies (Moorilla Mosaic, Bumble-Bee Books; Interior Despots, Pardalote Press). She was guest editor of Coast Lines #3, an Indonesian/Australian literary magazine, and during 2003 will be writer-in-residence at Risdon Men's Prison near Hobart.

Books by Philomena van Rijswijk

Philomena van Rijswijk's first collection of poems, Trail of Bones and Godstones, and her first novel, The Time It Rained Fish, were published by Esperance Press, Tasmania. Her second novel, The World As A Clockface, was published by Penguin in 2001.