A talented and introspective author whose creative journey has been deeply influenced by personal experiences.
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We spent the night together but all I could hear in the dark, was two hearts of stone clashing together
SHANE MCLEOD
The biting teeth of love
rents the heart
SHANE MCLEOD
Intellect isolates,
ignorance congregates
SHANE MCLEOD
The sublime is only possible through collaboration
SHANE MCLEOD
The strong do what they will
The weak suffer what they must
SHANE MCLEOD
The present is just the past in operation
SHANE MCLEOD
From selfish actions come painful consequences
SHANE MCLEOD
Beasts live amongst us camouflaged as plausible human beings
SHANE MCLEOD
Do you think I have so little respect for myself that I would forgive the spiteful cruelties meted out to me
SHANE MCLEOD
Forgiveness should devolve to the individual, justice
to the state
SHANE MCLEOD
For addicts there is something about chaos, it's like a warm hug
SHANE MCLEOD
The maintenance of ethical behaviour requires close attention and good husbandry
SHANE MCLEOD
A poem is an exhalation from the depths of the psyche
SHANE MCLEOD
The strong do what they will
The weak suffer what they must
SHANE MCLEOD
The present is just the past in operation
SHANE MCLEOD
There is no such thing as writer's block, there's only hangovers or a lack of will
SHANE MCLEOD
You can see in the poems the Carrajung Hills and Songlines there is a pervading sense of absence, loss and missed opportunities
SHANE MCLEOD
I know in my own work I try to be accessible and write about the challenges that face human beings, all human beings
SHANE MCLEOD
I have a tendency to pluck historical figures and events, actual and mythical, from the past and place them at the centre of a poem because what happens in the past is repeated over and over again in the present and the future
SHANE MCLEOD
I use words to create and manipulate images, metaphors, and symbols and attach them to people, actions, events and feelings
SHANE MCLEOD
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