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Eloise GrillsEloise Grills

Eloise Grills lives in Melbourne. Her comics, essays and poetry have been published in Queen Mob's Teahouse, SCUM, and The Lifted Brow. She tweets as @grillzoid. Eloise was born in Geelong in 1989.

The Friday Poem: ‘Independent woman’ by Eloise Grills

16 February 2018 by Eloise Grills

New verse by Australian writer Eloise Grills.   Independent woman   I am an independent woman I pay for all my groceries Even for the nuts which I could Theoretically put through as Less expensive nuts At the self-checkout I pay the prescribed price   I do not Need a man It’s easy like when … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags Friday Poem, Poetry, The Spinoff Review of Poetry

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