Links to Published Work
SINGLE AUTHORED CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
‘NOW NOW’ from Garron Press (SA) (October 2018)
‘MINOR SECONDS’ from Little Windows Press (SA/Scotland) (November 2018)
‘I saw the best memes of my generation’ from Recent Work (ACT) (November 2022).
POEMS PUBLISHED
‘GHOSTS’ in Broadsheet (NZ) Special Issue 20 November 2017
‘Leaves —After Rilke’ in Mantra (US) Issue 2 May 2018
‘Chin State, Myanmar’ in COLDNOON International Journal of Travel Writing (IND) August 2018
‘MAXXI’, ‘Ode to TOM ROBERTS’, and ‘An Arsonist’s Guide to Conceptual Art’ in SWAMP Postgraduate Creative Writing Magazine Issue 22, September 2018
’T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I’ in Transnational Literature Vol 11 Issue 1, November 2018
‘Fucking Adelaide’ in Marrickville Pause, Issue 5: Place, February 2019
‘Hallelujah Junction’ in Apeiron Review (US) Issue 15, March 2019
‘Starting at Nexus’ in Nexus Gallery, July 2019
‘Greta Thunberg Ode’ in Cordite Poetry Review, February 2020
‘Beginning and ending with a line from Hera Lindsay Bird’ in Cordite, October 2020
‘Arriving in Gaeta’, ‘Hymn to Possibility’, ‘Black Mirror’, and ‘Love in a Warm Climate’ in TEXT Journal India-Australia Special Issue (October 2020)
‘England in 2019’ and ‘Buried Verse’ in Social Alternatives, December 2020
‘The Rock Stars Are Dying’ in Overland, April 2021
‘Algorithm’ in Demos, May 2021
‘Late Night Thoughts’, in StylusLit, September 2021.
‘The Coffee Coffee Drinks’ in Overland, October 2021
‘Masculinities’ in Saltbush Review, October 2021
‘Intimacy’ in Meniscus, November 2021
‘How we live now’ and ‘The gift (after Czeslaw Milosz)’ in Recent Work Press, The Incompleteness Book II: Sudden Writing Anthology, November 2021
‘I don’t normally leave reviews for my Airbnb hosts but since they insisted’ in Spineless Wonders, Travel Anthology, April 2022
‘Nice things, artfully arranged’ in Rabbit 34, April 2022
‘Speed’ and ‘Queering the Cannon’ in Axon, June 2022
‘Hrad Devin’ in Saltbush, October 2022
‘Security Questions (True Vulnerability)’ in Cordite, February 2023
CRITICAL WORK
Symes, D 2017 “Ekphrasis as ‘Event’: Poets Paint Words and the ‘Performance’ of Ekphrasis in Australia” Cordite 58.1
Symes, D 2018 “Review Short: Eddie Paterson’s redactor” Cordite Online
Symes, D 2018 “A ‘Meandering’ Line: The Effect of Indeterminacy in a Gallery Ekphrasis” Axon 8:1
Symes, D 2020 “Jill Jones memes for disaffected teens; or, Introducing Aidan Coleman’s introduction for Jill Jones’ ‘A History of What I’ll Become’” Rochford Street Review, September
Symes, D 2020 “Slam Poetry: You say you want a revolution” TEXT Journal 24.2 October
Symes, D 2021 “You can live on things like this” [Review of Ella Jeffrey and Mags Webster] TEXT Journal 25.1 April
Symes, D 2021 “Poetry & Barthes: Going live with Steve Brock” TEXT Journal 25.1 April
Symes, D 2022 “A ringing glass that shivers even as it rings” [Review of Australian Anthology of Prose Poetry] TEXT Journal 26.1 April
Symes D 2023 “There is a stillness I seek: On ekphrasis and memory” TEXT Journal 27.1 April
AWARDS & ANTHOLOGIES
Winner of ‘Best Poem Published in Voiceworks’, Express Media Awards 2015
Selected for ‘Award Winning Australian Writing 2016’, Melbourne Books 2016
Featured poet at Adelaide Writers Week, Adelaide 2017
Selected for ‘States of Poetry’ South Australia, Australian Book Review 2018
Featured poet at Adelaide Writers Week, Adelaide 2019
Featured poet at Emerging Writers Festival, Melbourne 2020
Selected for ‘Tell me like you mean it: 4’, Cordite/Australian Poetry 2020
Selected for ‘Best of Australian Poems 2021’, Australian Poetry
COLLABORATIONS
‘Shanghai Fever’ with Photographer Tom McCammon, Adelaide, 2016
‘Paradise’ with Photographer Tom McCammon, Designer Tristan Kerr, Adelaide-Melbourne 2017
‘Spirits of Time and Place’ with Sculptor Geoffrey Riccardo, Melbourne, 2017
‘iMMi’ with Visual Artist Kaspar Schmitt Mumm, Adelaide, 2017-2018
‘Contact’ experimental music performance with Composer Kiah Gossner, 2019-2021
‘Illusion’ (2019) group exhibition with Curator Priya Pavri
‘Indian-Australian exchanges’ with TEXT Journal, 2020
‘Sound & Colour’ group show at Salamanca Arts Centre, 2021
‘Invisible Walls’ Korean–Australian poetry exchange, through Uni SA, 2022