Aidan Coleman

Biography

Aidan Coleman teaches English at Cedar College in Adelaide and is currently completing his second book of poems with the assistance of an Australia Council Grant. He is the co-author of a series of Shakespeare textbooks to be released in the US this August.

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POETRY / Summer 2011

Beginning

By Aidan Coleman

Across three fences
the lights and noise of a party at anchor;
a paddock dusty
with stars; our lit-up talk
 forgettable.

POETRY / Summer 2011

Day

By Aidan Coleman

Wake with a kiss on your lips.
The sun steps down through trees.
You sit in the corner of my eye
all morning, working on something.

POETRY / Summer 2011

May 29

By Aidan Coleman

A lucky rain
misted
the far hills to fresco