Ella O'Keefe & Tim Wright


Anagrams Old & New
(Some Australian Poets Anagrammatically Addressed)


Kris Hemensley



Leah Muddle



Melinda Bufton



Pete Spence



Sam Moginie



Marty Hiatt



Geraldine Burrowes



Ken Bolton



Sian Vate



Luke Beesley



Amanda Stewart



Fiona Hile



Andrew Pascoe



Ella O’Keefe



Sam Langer



Amelia Dale



Tim Wright



Emily Stewart



Claire Gaskin



Mark Young







Here in sky elms



Mulled head



Am unit of blend



tense pep (C.E.)
‘cept pensée!


ie. a gnomism



I’m a try that



World-seeing ear rub



Noble knot



A tin vase



Elk blue eyes



Net a data swarm



Alone, hi-fi



We don a parsec



A feel’ok eel



Mars angle



A lead email



Mirth twig



May we rest lit



Ask in glacier



Murky agon
(or 
My okra gun)





Note:

Old: Tim put together a few of these Australian poet anagrams about ten years ago, inspired by 
reading Laurie Duggan’s of the 1970s, which in turn were inspired by those of Jonathan Williams. 

New: The anagrams turned up again and we found ourselves interested in them and began to update the list.
We debated questions such as Should the name be included with the anagram or should the anagram only be 
presented? Can punctuation be added? And commiserated when an otherwise perfectly appropriate word or 
phrase was left with one or two letters that refused to bind. Quite a few names we wanted to include were
found (by us at least) to be unanagramatisable.  

Ella O’Keefe: author of the book Slowlier and the chapbook Rhinestone.

Tim Wright: most recently organiser of the now orries (https://flooble.net/~tim/now_orries) series of chapbooks.

 
 

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