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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Snake Like Charms
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'Praise for Snake Like Charms:

'Amanda Joy’s first full-scale book Snake Like Charms was five years in the making. It’s grounded deep in reality as are the snake cultures and legends it draws from. Amanda Joy is a poet from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, origin of the Rainbow Serpent, the Great Spirit that represents the world’s oldest religious tradition. According to Indigenous song-cycles, a snake literally created this country. These lines from the poem ‘Your Ground’ carry their wisdom lightly “snake says / be still / stand your ground / it's the only protection we have’.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • For my parents, John and Sally, who gifted me a nomadic

    childhood in the Pilbara and Kimberley, and also for Tim

    and all the Healy Road Tuart Lovers.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2017 .
      image of person or book cover 7580250304314993190.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 100p.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 2017
      ISBN: 9781742589404
      Series: y separately published work icon UWAP Poetry Club Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016- 10166627 2016 series - publisher poetry

Works about this Work

‘Luminous Fragments’ : Three Poetry Titles from UWAP Ella Jeffery , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry ; A Personal History of Vision Luke Fischer , 2017 selected work poetry ; Flute of Milk Susan Fealy , 2017 selected work poetry
Kyra Thomsen Reviews Snake Like Charms Kyra Thomsen , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 166-168)

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry

'Snake Like Charms is a debut book that writhes in the reader's hand, lively and lovely. My pen underlined so many passages like a skin, black python stretching across the page. The book explores family and relationships, self and identity, culture and country through the snake motif and Joy's languid use of language.' (Introduction)

Pete Hay Reviews Rachael Mead and Amanda Joy P. R. Hay , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;

'The chapbook is the ideal public presentation of poetry for the times in which we live. It is even more portable than the conventionally slim collection; its humbler production values permit poets to get their work ‘out there’, thereby meeting the democratic criterion of accessibility for both poet and reader, and it is conducive to the rigours of thematic focus that a small body of work encourages. Long may it flourish.' (Introduction)

Mary Cresswell Reviews Snake Like Charms by Amanda Joy Mary Cresswell , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , June vol. 4 no. 1.1 2017;

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry
Small Miracle and Other Visions Peter Pierce , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24 June 2017; (p. 22)
'In the field of Australian poetry publishing, hope is never lost. However small the print run, limited the critical response, minimal the financial return, presses have always started up and battled on, fuelled by idealism. The latest player has made an ambitious ­beginning. The poetry series from Perth-based UWA Publishing was “established in 2016 in ­response to the decline in poetry publishing ­nationally and to the high volume of quality submissions we receive”.' (Introduction)
Mary Cresswell Reviews Snake Like Charms by Amanda Joy Mary Cresswell , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , June vol. 4 no. 1.1 2017;

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry
Kyra Thomsen Reviews Snake Like Charms Kyra Thomsen , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 166-168)

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry

'Snake Like Charms is a debut book that writhes in the reader's hand, lively and lovely. My pen underlined so many passages like a skin, black python stretching across the page. The book explores family and relationships, self and identity, culture and country through the snake motif and Joy's languid use of language.' (Introduction)

‘Luminous Fragments’ : Three Poetry Titles from UWAP Ella Jeffery , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry ; A Personal History of Vision Luke Fischer , 2017 selected work poetry ; Flute of Milk Susan Fealy , 2017 selected work poetry
The Writhing, Hissing Life Force of the Poems : Liana Joy Christensen Launches ‘Snake Like Charms’ by Amanda Joy Liana Joy Christensen , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 22 2017;
'To say I was charmed by the invitation to launch this collection is not a platitudinous social nicety. I was literally charmed in the original and potentially perilous sense of the word. The meaning invoked in the title.' (Introduction)
'Snake Like Charms' by Amanda Joy and 'The Herring Lass' by Michelle Cahill Rose Lucas , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 392 2017;
'Michelle Cahill and Amanda Joy have produced two engaging and proficient collections of poetry. In their different ways, each revels in worlds of perception, imagination, and poetic craft.' (Introduction)
Small Miracle and Other Visions Peter Pierce , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24 June 2017; (p. 22)
'In the field of Australian poetry publishing, hope is never lost. However small the print run, limited the critical response, minimal the financial return, presses have always started up and battled on, fuelled by idealism. The latest player has made an ambitious ­beginning. The poetry series from Perth-based UWA Publishing was “established in 2016 in ­response to the decline in poetry publishing ­nationally and to the high volume of quality submissions we receive”.' (Introduction)
Pete Hay Reviews Rachael Mead and Amanda Joy P. R. Hay , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;

'The chapbook is the ideal public presentation of poetry for the times in which we live. It is even more portable than the conventionally slim collection; its humbler production values permit poets to get their work ‘out there’, thereby meeting the democratic criterion of accessibility for both poet and reader, and it is conducive to the rigours of thematic focus that a small body of work encourages. Long may it flourish.' (Introduction)

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