MERYL BROWN TOBIN
POETRY
Wilful wild winter
winds whip white waves on wetlands
wrecking waders’ roost
Meryl Brown Tobin
Note: Haiku previously published in Mainichi Daily News, Poetry Monash and Thoughts in Miniature.
Publications where Meryl Brown Tobin’s poems were featured
Australia
Ariel Chart; Athene; Australian Writers Journal; Baby & Beyond; Bass Coast Post (Bass Coast Post - Home) Berwick Moos; broad seat; Celia Berrell’s Science Rhymes Facebook page; Centoria; Climb the Mountain: Poetry & Prose from The Society of Women Writers Victoria Inc; Contrasts; The Dawn; Different Prints for 2000; Fad Blattery; Free XpresSion; Friends of ABC Poet’s Corner Newsletter; Infant Times; The Lyrebird Monthly; Mentor; Micropress Yates; The Mozzie; Musicgodsplague; Oxygen; Palladians Newsletter; Patchwork of the Past; Patchwork of Poetry; Penfriend; Poetry Matters; Poetry Monash; Positive Words; Readers’ World; Red Lamp; Redoubt, Rhymes for the Times, Ripples, Slope, http://www.sciencerhymes.com.au/awesome-possum.html; The Small Times; South Gippsland Sentinel Times; Small Bits (Chisholm TAFE, Berwick Campus Anthology); Solstice; Studio; Swag o’ Verse, 2005; Tamba; Tinselitis; Twigs; Unborn Beauty: Celebrating Pregnancy and Parenthood; The Best of John Reid’s Poet’s Corner; The Best of John Reid’s Poet’s Corner Vol 2; The Waterline News; The Write Angle; The Writing Set, SWW Aust (Vic) Newsletter; Writer’s Friend, Writer’s Friend Fifth Birthday Competition booklet; Write Away: Newsletter of The Society of Women Writers Victoria, Inc
To see some of Meryl Brown Tobin's poetry on Internet sites, check out https://www.waterlinenews.com.au/waterlinesearch.html.
Overseas
Journal of Australian Literature (India); Mainichi Daily News (Japan); Metverse Muse (India); Red Lamp (UK); Valley Micropress (NZ)
Radio
John Reid’s Poet’s Corner, ABC; Radio Nag–91.3 FM, Yeppoon; Write Now–Southern FM 88.3.
BOOKS OF POETRY
Contrasts: Poetry from Chisholm Institute Berwick edited, compiled, contributed to and published by Meryl Brown Tobin, 1999; Cover, Fiona Paton ©
Thoughts in Miniature by Haiku Group, The Society of Women Writers Victoria Inc with each of the five contributing poets, Rhona Fahey, Dorothea Trafford Lavery, Janet Howie and Rebecca Maxwell, contributing a booklet to the book, co-edited by Dorothea Trafford Lavery & Meryl Brown Tobin, Ningan Publishing, The Gurdies, Victoria, Australia, 2003
Cover, Dorothea Trafford Lavery ©
Walk in the Forest: A Collection of Poems by Meryl Brown Tobin, Ningan Publishing, The Gurdies, Victoria, Australia, 2004
Review by Christine Edwards on Walk in the Forest, by Meryl Brown Tobin – Aussie Reviews
Changing Landscape, Picaro Poets, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, SA, Australia, 2023
Review, ‘Pastoral Love Stories to Nature’ by Chrissie Michaels, see Free XpresSion: https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/cqap/#p=1, p13.
Perennial Blooms by Perennial Poets, Society of Women Writers Victoria Inc, with the eight contributing poets, Bee Williamson, Janice Williams, Margaret Pearce, Mary Louise Di Stasio, Meryl Brown Tobin, Michele Revill, Nenia Tavrou and Shirley McGirr, each contributing a booklet of five poems. Edited by Nenia Tavrou, 2023.
AWARDS and Places for Poems in Competitions
'Fergie' Winner of 1st Lit Comp, Redoubt, 1993
'Flowers' Winning Haiku, The Lyrebird Monthly, Nos 22-3, June-July 1993
'The Bonsai Tree' Eq 3rd Poetry, Christmas Comps, Society Women Writers (Aust) Vic Branch, 1999
'Home' 3rd, Writer’s Friend Fifth Birthday Competition Anthology 2001
'Thoughts in Miniature' Highly Commended, FAW (Vic) Nat Lit Awards for 2003, Malvern News Sheet Community Writers Award for an anthology by a community writers’ group, Feb, 2004 (with four others)
'Eden Suspended' 2nd Poetry, SWWVic Christmas Competitions 2005
‘Innocence in Ashes' Commended, Poetry, SWWVic Christmas Competitions, 2007
'Child of Africa' Highly Commended The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize SWWVic,2008
'Corinella Cat' 1st Prize in Category 3 (Poems 31 lines or more), Poetry Matters Competition 2010
'Hers Beyond Death' Highly Commended, Waterline Writing Competitions: Poetry Section 2011
'Objet d' Art 3rd Prize Poetry, Christmas Competitions, SWWVic 2011
'Breath of Love' (poem) 1st Writer’s Friend Feb-Mar Letter Game Comp, Ap/May, 2012
'Friends' (poem) 1st Writer’s Friend Comp, Aug-Sept 2012
'Message from Angie' Commended Section C Free Verse, Free XpresSion 2014 Literary Competition
'Babes in the War' Commended, Poetry, Christmas Competitions, SWWVic 2010
'Babes in the War' Encouragement, Poetry Open, 6th Annual Waterline Writing Competition 2013
'In the Orchard' Special Mention: Poetry, Christmas Competitions, SWWVic 2013
'Avian Farewell' Highly Commended, Positive Words SS and Poetry Comp 2016
'A Rural Christmas' 3rd, Christmas Competitions, SWWVic 2016
'His Pride' Shortlisted Positive Words July 2016 Mini-Comp. Theme: Pride