Ivan Cole, Australia

Introducing: Ivan Cole has been a poet for many years but while he was active in Melbourne in the 80’s in the poetry scene he has only just started to publish his work after 40 years of experimentation.  Ivan writes both  haiku, tanka and longer poems in both free verse and a variety of forms . He lives in Bungendore (NSW) and has had recent poems in freeXpresSion magazine , Eucalypt, Australian Friend, the word in worlds ii and Catchment V5.

twenty toes in a pond
just skin touching
- a mirror world 

December 13th 2025