- to match their summer window
-
they paint the bedroom walls
-
blue
-
- empty tins of blue paint
-
in the backyard
-
full
of sky now
-
- out of kindness now
-
I shout at my father
-
going
deaf
-
- Shaking hands
-
as if we agree
-
on
the rules of combat
[famous
reporter 21 : June 2000]
Kevin Brophy is a poet and
novelist. He has had ten books published. From 1980 to 1994 Kevin Brophy edited the small
press literary journal Going Down Swinging. His poems and essays have been
anthologised in Best Australian Poems 2004, 2006 (Black Inc.), The Road South
(Five islands, 2007), New Music: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Five Islands
2001), Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family (Oxford 1999), My Secret
Life (Melbourne Festival of Poetry 1999), Daughters and Fathers (UQP 1997)
and other publications. His book, Creativity, was shortlisted for the NSW
Premiers Nonfiction Literary Award. Kevin Brophy is a regular reviewer for Reading
Time, the journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and contributes Book
Notes for the Council of Adult Education book Reading Groups. He has been awarded
Australia Council for the Arts writers grants in 1974, 1986 and 2005. He has been awarded
Arts Victoria project grants in 1996 and 2003.