En Passant

The words, the article, the politics Cannot write tonight The not right of campaigns The pain of lies, untruths, sales By the men and women with snake oil Greasing our minds With thoughts to supposedly explain Our economic insecurity as gain But exploitation is insecure Systemically, crises are its cure, Unplanned, undemocratic Men in suits […]

Can art fuel a revolution? Are poems art? Are words enough? The lived experience The falling value of labour The precipice of profit Before we fall off Or rather it falls away A landslide of lives lost At what cost? Not in dollars But in our lives And then the dollars, our dollars Not yours […]

Our prize I win no prizesNot even the packersI have some backersWho love live wordsThose words that catch the mindHalf formed, in front,Behind, The display of everydayWritten in another languageNot babbling booksOr winter waterBut the past glanceThe calm that enhancesThe daily grind and finds A secret mind, a placeOf peaceUnlike this worldOf war, coups, arms […]

Whose Broken Is This ? CD and Book launch review by Leanne Wicks published poet, artist and historian. “Through the bookcase door of Beyond Q on Saturday 30th March flourished a provoking fusion of poetry and music. Canberra poet, John Passant and Mallacoota duo Jim Horvath and Milena Cifali aka ‘The Awesome’, launched their book […]

John Passant has packed 58 remarkable poems into the 108 pages of his second volume of poems, Whose broken is this? and other poems, writes Paul Burger in Independent Australia. On the one hand, this heroic anthology reveals great contemplation of his personal life. On the other hand, it is an outspoken anthology which reveals […]

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