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(1983)

Tim Heffernan
to go home do not be afraid of previous shadows, of darkened recollections of too steep hills. fear is your mind and mind the others who speak of courage but do not comprehend that these times must be overcome

Tim Heffernan has published at Thylazine, Cordite, Spineless Wonders, Eureka Street, Blackmail Press, Red Room Company and Verity La. Most recently his work has appeared in Australian Poetry, Rabbit and Plumwood Mountain. Tim was awarded the 2016 joanne burns award for prose poetry and microfiction. With poet Alise Blayney he developed the first ‘Mad Poetry’ workshops and readings at the 2016 Wollongong Writers Festival and together they co-edit Verity La’s, ‘Clozapine Clinic – The Frater Project’. Tim has also collaborated with Iraqi poet Haider Catan in translating the ‘Poetry in the Minefield’ an anthology of poets published in Verity La’s ‘Discoursing Diaspora’.

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