Eloise Grills Eloise Grills i(13983118 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Every Morning Eloise Grills , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Line in the Sand 2023;
1 The Members of *NSYNC Are Absorbed inside The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch and Sing the Song ‘Pop’ but It Sounds Haunting and Weird like That Recording of the Butt Music from Bosch’s Painting : A Triptych i "Like a poet, like a sucker, I am married to the source-code of language", Eloise Grills , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
1 Sue Tilley Benefits Supervisor Sleeping Realness Eloise Grills , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , December no. 28 2022;
1 Books Roundup Ellen Cregan , Eloise Grills , Monique Grbec , Jumaana Abdu , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2022;

— Review of Tell Me Again Amy Thunig , 2022 single work autobiography ; Men I Trust Tommi Parrish , 2022 single work graphic novel ; The Glass House Brooke Dunnell , 2022 single work novel ; The Lovers Yumna Kassab , 2022 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Dog Park Radha O'Meara , Eloise Grills (illustrator), Sydney : Glom Press , 2022 24844935 2022 single work graphic novel

'SHE is half-asleep when she dresses to walk her dogs to the local park in the dim morning sunlight. Wandering together through the cold, damp grass, they stumble upon something dreadful. This experience rocks the woman out of her habitual actions and everyday rhythms. Dog Park draws us into an unsettling contemplation of the murky lines between the living and the dead.'  (Publication summary)

1 The Fat Bitch in Art Eloise Grills , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 81 no. 1 2022; Meanjin Online 2022;
Author's note: This essay contains loving recreations and responses to artists' works. You can locate through the bibliography. I am indebted to the creativity, spirit and bravery of these people.
1 I Love You So Much I Am Ready to Embrace Queer Death on Screen i "I want to die so you weep on my shirts", Eloise Grills , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Borderless : A Transnational Anthology of Feminist Poetry 2021; (p. 46-47)
1 I Write Poetry and Get Paid in Poetry i "I write death", Eloise Grills , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Your Hands 2020; (p. 41)
1 Practice, Not Perfect Eloise Grills , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2020;

'Why must we be good at things in order to enjoy them? After years of struggling with perfectionism and self-sabotage, I want to give myself space to breathe.'

1 The Blurst Bitch i "It is a truth universally acknowledged", Eloise Grills , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 96 2020;
1 Does Trauma Need a Witness? Eloise Grills , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , April 2020;

'I am sitting in a café in North Melbourne adjacent to the hospital. It’s filled with older people anticipating or denying or recovering from the usual bodily attrition, sporty-looking medical staff with lanyards drinking long blacks, and people on break from day-programs in street clothes trying to blend in. These are people with enough money to sit in a café and eat something and to dawdle while doing it, not worried about = being asked to leave. A very limited inner-city melting pot, in other words, of which I, on my laptop typing this essay, am a part.' (Introduction)

1 My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted, Disgusting Cyborg Phantasy Eloise Grills , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , March no. 45 2020; (p. 20-29.)
1 10 y separately published work icon Big Beautiful Female Theory Eloise Grills , Melbourne : Brow Books , 2020 18458046 2020 single work autobiography

'A glorious expansion of her winning piece from the 2018 Prize for Experimental Nonfiction, Big Beautiful Female Theory is an illustrated lyric essay that binds slogans, memoir, history, poetry, fiction, critical theory, pop culture, fat theory, art criticism, sex and a befuddling procession of acronyms to defy the ways in society polices, manages, and dehumanises bodies.'

Source: Publisher's catalogue.

1 I't My Party and I'll Eat Shit and Die If I Want to i "Lord give me the gall to write bad comedy", Eloise Grills , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 27 2019; (p. 64-66)
1 A Wound of One’s Own : Imperfect by Lee Kofman Eloise Grills , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2019;

'In Imperfect Lee Kofman dissects her life-long relationship to the scars on her body. She tells of the calamities that scarred her: a haphazardly administered heart operation in the Soviet Union when she was ten years old left her with ugly scars on her chest; a week later she was run over by a bus, leaving her leg stippled by scar tissue. She traces her relationship to her own scars and to a multitude of secondary texts; she interviews other people about their experiences, seeking to understand how what she terms our ‘Body Surface’ moulds our lives. Disentangling her flesh from metaphor in an effort to study her relationship with it, to redefine its paradigm beyond tired axioms of self-love. ‘Reality is messy, way messier than is possible to sum up in manifestos of pop-psychology advice,’ she writes.' (Introduction)

1 y separately published work icon If You're Sexy and You Know It Slap Your Hams Eloise Grills , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927729 2019 selected work poetry
1 To Live There : on ‘Dispatch from the Future Fish’ Danny Silva Soberano , Eloise Grills , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

'‘Dispatch from the Future Fish’ is a visual poem that is deliberately referential, opening up conversations and foregrounding the notion of writing into certain traditions: those that are given to us and those that we choose.'  (Introduction)

1 1 Dispatch from the Future Fish i "I come from", Eloise Grills , Danny Silva Soberano , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;
1 I Can’t Stop Thinking about How Fancy and Intimidating My Death Is Going to Be Eloise Grills , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 Diet Culture Rules Everything Around Me Eloise Grills , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
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