SELECTED POEMS
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Life Support 2019 Bimblebox 153 Brisbane launch
Spotted Nightjar 2019 Bimblebox 153 Brisbane launch
Amphora 2014 Australian Poetry Journal 3.2 41
Fore Word 2014 Westerly Magazine
The Village Cordite Poetry Review
The Bathers Cordite Poetry Review
Dialectic Cordite Poetry Review
Three Poems about Sacrifice 2010 Perilous Adventures 10.2
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POETRY AWARDS
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Westerly Writers' Development Program 2018
Shortlisted for Anadi
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Varuna Residential Fellowship 2017
Manuscript development for Anadi
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Josephine Ulrick Prize for Poetry 2008
Runner up for 'Duel Suite'
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Thomas Shapcott Prize 2007
Highly commended for Orison
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Val Vallis Prize 2007
Third for 'The Ice Palace'
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SELECTED POETRY PERFORMANCES & READINGS
Selections from Tell:
Masters & Slaves: Other Voices
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'Retort: Speak to Me'
Slam Poets, Experimenta: 5th International Biennial of Media Art
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The Seamstress (Sound Installation)
Draft: Fashion & Writing Collaboration, Brisbane Powerhouse
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WRITING ABOUT POETRY
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Of Old Men and the Sea: Alan Gould's The Past Completes Me
Utopia 4 Jul 2005
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"To enter again and again the killing
flame,
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over and over to be ghosted as if
living
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meant nothing, and to rise flesh
enough
to put names to it: this is what
writing is."
'The Word Closest to the Body'
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"Siall Waterbright’s elegant concrete poem Amphora evokes the earliest known pattern poems in the Western canon, the votive offerings by Simias of Rhodes of the third century BC: ‘‘Beauty is an effect, it makes the self stop in its rutted course.’’'
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Jaya Savige, 'Words Take Shape on the Printed Page', The Australian