Poetry
Whatever love is for, poetry does that: Peter Ramm’s book is an instance. The collection Peter has crafted is shapely and wise and beautiful.
—Mark Tredinnick
These are timeless poems – long linocuts and etchings of nature and place. Ramm lays down his lines like a painter, creating sketches of family and vignettes of life. Each poem is a beachcomber walking with wonder along the waterlines of a perfect beach.
—Damen O'Brien
Waterlines doesn’t read like a first collection. Which is not to say it isn’t fresh or exciting. Rather, that this is a poet at the height of their powers ... People who adore the great Australian poets Judith Beveridge or Gwen Harwood will love this collection
—Broede Carmody, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
There is so much in it, so much to it... it roars and it sings and it startles.
—Jennifer Compton
Highly Commended in ACT Notable Book Awards, 2023
‘The ink from Peter Ramm’s pen courses through Waterlines as the Wingecarribee courses through the Southern Highland landscape where these poems take place. Eloquent, melancholic & breathtakingly beautiful, these poems, these almost-hymns, rejoice in the poet’s love of this landscape and read as tender love letters to his sons. Replete with gentle, evocative imagery, each line shimmers, as though the gentle rays of the Southern Highland sun were upon them.’
– ali whitelock, a brief letter to the sea about a couple of things
These poems beatify the natural world we are part of and are beatified in return. Read them slowly and they'll grab you by your hand making you walk through the wordscape they create as glorious and charming as the landscape with which they play a sonorous hide-and-seek. Blessed and blessing.
– Subhash Jaireth
Below are links to poems that have appeared in a range of publications and anthologies.
2022
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"Mount Marshall Road at Dusk" The Rialto 97
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"Landfall" Winner of the 2022 Manchester Poetry Prize
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"Burrill Lake after Rain" Live Encounters Poetry and Writing, September-October 2022 Volume 2
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"Leaves in August: Or Searching for Them" [Guest Editorial] Live Encounters Poetry and Writing, September-October 2022 Volume 2
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Late Autumn Tercets, 2022 Bundanon Writers Week Poetry Commission and in SCWC Anthology Mantle
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Waterlines my debut poetry collection published by Vagabond Press [click to purchase a copy]
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"The Sedulity of Soldier Crabs" Mascara Literary Review, Issue 28, November 2022
2021
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"One night in March; Stuart's Crossing Under Lights" 2021 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology: Generosity
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"End of Autumn Ghazals in a Broken Field" 2021 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology: Generosity
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"Robertson Redux in May" 2021 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology: Generosity
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"After December: the Summer in Fog" Poetry for the Planet Anthology, Litoria Press,
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"Seven Sijo in July" Poetry for the Planet Anthology, Litoria Press,
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"Minumurra Sestets" SCWC Anthology Legacies, 2021
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"Three Cormorants" Brushstrokes II, Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology 2020–21
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"The Falls" The Incompleteness Book II, Recent Work Press, 2021
2020
2019
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Mong Song in the Red Room Company
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"One to A Vase" Plumwood Mountain Plant Poetics, 7, 1, 2019
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Headland Daydreaming (Suite of poems) Eureka Street Journal 30th September 2019.
Education
2019
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Poems to Share II, AATE and Red Room Poetry
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Cambridge Checkpoints NSW English Advanced Year 12 2021-2022 (Ed. Mel Dixon),
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The ABC Book of Australian Poetry: Teacher Resource, Reading Australia,
2018
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Reading to Write, (Ed. Mel Dixon) English Teachers Association of NSW, 2018
