POEMS
Below you’ll find a list of Indrani Perera’s poems that were published in anthologies, literary journals (print and digital), and chapbooks as well as those that have placed in competitions or been awarded prizes.
You can buy Indrani’s poetry collections, pas de deux and Defenestration, here.
PRIZES
Jul 2025 Longlisted Liquid Amber Poetry Prize
Jun 2025 Longlisted Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize
Oct 2024 Longlisted 2024 Frontier OPEN Poetry Prize
Apr 2024 Shortlisted Heroines’ Anthology (Volume 5, Global Poetry Edition)
Oct 2023 Highly Commended University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
Oct 2023 Longlisted University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
Oct 2022 Shortlisted Jean Stone Award
Aug 2022 Winner Red Room 30 in 30 Daily Winner, Day Four
May 2022 Shortlisted Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing: Open Poetry Section
Oct 2017 Winner Elyne Mitchell Prize: Non-Fiction Bonus Prize
PUBLICATIONS
ANTHOLOGIES
Oct 2025 Refraction (Poetry of Flight: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology, Liquid Amber Press)
Oct 2025 What the Poet Said (Poetry of Flight: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology, Liquid Amber Press)
Dec 2024 pathika, (Heroines: An Anthology of Poetry Volume 5, editor Sarah Nicholson)
Jun 2024 Notes From the Diaspora on Returning ‘Home’ (Being, Centre for Creative & Cultural Research)
Jun 2024 Landline (Being, Centre for Creative & Cultural Research)
Feb 2024 no good at sport (Finding My Feet, Melbourne Poets Union)
Feb 2024 Seagrass Meadow (Finding My Feet, Melbourne Poets Union)
Dec 2023 Settler’s Debt (Telling Australia’s Truth, Ginninderra Press)
Sep 2023 Liquefy (Poetry D’Amour 2023, WA Poets Inc)
Sep 2023 The Ocean of You (Poetry D’Amour 2023, WA Poets Inc)
Dec 2022 dried apricots (Shoot the Breeze, Girls on Key)
Nov 2021 The Scientific Astrologer (Eclectic Words, Geelong Writers Inc)
May 2021 too late (Milestones, Ginninderra Press)
May 2020 Apis (From the Inside Looking Out, Geelong Writers Inc)
May 2020 We Ride the Night (From the Inside Looking Out, Geelong Writers Inc)
May 2020 Intergalactic Tourism (I Protest, Ginninderra Press)
Sep 2019 Gunnug Batur (Mountain Secrets, Ginninderra Press)
Aug 2019 Recipe For A Poem (Brushstrokes: Ros Spencer Poetry Contest 2016-19, WA Poets Inc)
CHAPBOOKS
Aug 2024 Anthropocene (Queensland Writers Centre)
COMMISSIONS
Mar 2025 Far Flung Seeds (Phone-a-Poem, Red Room poetry)
JOURNALS
Dec 2024 Notes to a Magpie Sitting on a Fence, Carolling to the Trees (Australian Poetry Journal, Issue 13.2: Desire)
Dec 2023 Places You’ll Never Go and Things You Won’t See (Kalliope X, Issue 5: Spring)
Nov 2023 Light Years (Science Write Now, Issue 9: Migration)
Nov 2023 Yesterday is Today: the Migration of Memory (Science Write Now, Issue 9: Migration)
Jul 2023 At the Foothills of the Dandenong Ranges (Jacaranda Journal)
Jul 2023 Complicit: A Visual History of ‘Australia’ Since Invasion (Axon, Issue 13.1: Text Art)
Mar 2023 Uncanny Valley (Mantissa Poetry Review, Issue 2: Re)
Mar 2023 Attention: Ferntree Gully (December 2020) (Mantissa Poetry Review, Issue 2: Re)
Dec 2022 $7.86 (hākārā, Issue 17: Repetition)
Dec 2022 Iteration (October 2022) (hākārā, Issue 17: Repetition)
Oct 2022 Dystopian Dreams (Eye to the Telescope, Issue 46: Quest)
Sep 2022 The Poisoned Path (The Crow, September 2022)
Aug 2022 Life Support (Gems Zine, Issue 22: Nature)
Aug 2022 paper garden (Gems Zine, Issue 22: Nature)
Feb 2022 a different brew (Burrow, February 2022: Gifting)
Feb 2022 binding threads (Burrow, February 2022: Gifting)
Feb 2022 Catching Some Zeds (Burrow, February 2022: Gifting)
Feb 2022 The Toddy Tappers (Cordite, Issue 104: Kin)
Dec 2021 A Good Listener (The Crow)
Dec 2021 going viral (The Victorian Writer, Summer 2021: Transformation)
Aug 2021 all she left unsaid (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)
Aug 2021 Come Out and Play (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)
Aug 2021 on the ferny creek trail (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)
Aug 2021 Shimmer (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)
Aug 2021 Summer Alive (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)
Aug 2021 Two Girls and a Swing (Rochford Street Review, Issue 32)
Aug 2021 A Lexicon (Pocketry, Issue 2)
Jul 2021 Shelter (More than Melanin, Issue 2: Intimacy in Solitude)
Jun 2021 Nana’s Kitchen (The Crow)
May 2021 Vanishing Point (Teesta Review Journal, Volume 4)
May 2021 Kama Kunna Ena (Teesta Review Journal, Volume 4)
Mar 2021 White Fragility (Not Very Quiet, Issue 8: Mask)
Feb 2021 Never Seen (Cordite, Issue 100: Brownface)
ZINES
May 2025 Love vs Autumn (Slamtidote)
Dec 2024 Haiku in the Hills (editor AJ D’Costa)
OTHER
Sep 2024 by the book haiku (Poetry on the Big Screen at Northbridge Piazza, Perth Poetry Festival)
Sep 2024 introduced species (Poetry on the Big Screen at Northbridge Piazza, Perth Poetry Festival)
Dec 2019 Edifice (Receipt Poetry, Yarra Libraries)
RESIDENCIES
Sep 2024 Highly Commended Terra, Varuna Residential Fellowship