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Philip Neilsen

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2017

Cane Toad

By Philip Neilsen

Fist of olive and autumn toad rises from its cup of leaves,muscles into brink of lawn. Night ranks advance sixty kilometreseach circuit of the sun, a river from Cairns to […]

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2017

Wildlife of Berlin

By Philip Neilsen

The documentary tracks badgers, follows foxes in their mellow tunnels and silver dawns, the delicate relocation of a bee swarm, the nattering flutter of squirrels, bats and swifts. A young […]