SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Luke Johnson is the author of two books: the short-story collection Ferocious Animals (available for purchase here), and the poetry collection Kangaroo Unbound (available for purchase here).

He has published a multitude of poems, stories, essays and reviews over the past decade and a half, a selection of which can be found below:

‘A Final Warning from God’ (review) in The Conversation (2024)

‘Back in the USSR?’ (review) in The Conversation (2024)

‘Kangaroos and Kindred Spirits’ (essay) in The Conversation (2024)

‘What Does’t Kill You Makes for a Great Story’ (review) in The Conversation (2024)

‘Death of Cooley’ (poem) in Unlikely (2023)

‘The Supper’ (poem) in Griffith Review (2022)

‘An Open Space’ (prose poem) in Island Online (2022)

‘Sacraments of Guilt’ (essay) in Griffith Review (2022)

Ferocious Animals (book of short stories) (2021)

‘There’s No Such Thing as a Cat Person’ (essay) in Symploke (2020)

‘Littleproud’ (monologue) in Island (2020)

‘The Conditional Past’ (story) in Southerly (2019)

‘Happiness in Repetition’ (review) in TEXT (2018)

‘Winter’s Coming, Summer’s Been’ (essay) in Overland (2018)

‘When We Were Eight Together’ (story) in Island (2017)

‘Ferocious Animals’ (story) in Griffith Review (2016)

‘The Author is Dead, But…’ (essay) in TSLL (2016)

‘Rural Sonnets’ (poems) in Meniscus (2016)

‘The Names of Dead Horses’ (story) in Westerly (2015)

‘Toasting an Honorary Jet and Okay Son-of-a-Bitch’ (story) in Mascara Review (2015)

‘A Small Dead Thing’ (story) in Mascara Review (2015)

‘The Ghost of Electricity’ (story) in Going Down Swinging (2013)

‘Of Rivers and Blood’ (story) in Overland (2012)

‘The Supermarket Play’ (story) in TEXT (2011)

‘A Near-Death Interruption’ (story) in Mascara Review (2011)

‘A True Heart’ (story) in Island (2011)

‘Gutted, for Carl Solomon’ (story) in Going Down Swinging (2010)

‘The Cuckold, and Me’ (story) in HEAT (2010)