Stonehead | Dennis Johnstone

Poetry of witness, endurance, and refusal — a wandering Australian voice, carved by chronic illness, weathered on a croft in Scotland, forged through labour on a hospital ward, and reaching toward deeper questions of body, state, and spirit.

These are not poems of consolation or convenience. They walk through pain, illness, labour, and loss; they ask what it means to live and act in a broken world.

Some poems are grounded in daily care and hard truths. Some explore rhythm, sound, and ritual. Others turn philosophical, stripping back illusion.

Written under the name Stonehead — also as Dennis Johnstone — this is poetry that will not fit in the box it was given.