Ian C Smith lives in the Gippsland Lakes region of Victoria.  His work has appeared in The best Australian poetry, Cordite, Chiron Review, Island, Sleepers Almanac, Southerly and Westerly. His last book was Memory like hunger, and a chapbook, Contains language is due in 2011. He writes: ‘Here, where I work’ was inspired by Lynette Roberts’ ‘Poem for Llanybri’.