Giant Stinging Trees single work   poetry   "Most unapproachable of trees, their highnesses"
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Giant Stinging Trees
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Notes

  • Author's note: Giant Stinging Tree : Dendrocnide excelsa. Chrysomelids : leaf beetles.

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    y separately published work icon Green Dance : Tamborine Mountain Poems Jena Woodhouse , Tamborine : Calanthe Press , 2018 14349807 2018 selected work poetry

    'For the best part of a decade, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, my family and I were included in the informal list of house guests at Abydos, Dr Val Vallis's rainforest retreat at The Knoll, North Tamborine. Dr Vallis (1916-2009), who preferred to be known as Val, a distinguished poet and Reader in English in what was then the University of Queensland's English Department, had been a friend and mentor to me during my undergraduate years. Val's offer to lend me the key to Abydos was a gift that opened the way to a place of profound natural beauty, inspiration and creativity, and the poems in this Tamborine Mountain collection, Green Dance, are the direct result of that magnanimous gesture.' (Foreword introduction)

    Tamborine : Calanthe Press , 2018
    pg. 16
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    y separately published work icon Eureka Street vol. 28 no. 20 7 October 2018 15257108 2018 periodical issue 2018
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    y separately published work icon Mountain Secrets Joan Fenney (editor), Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2019 17689367 2019 anthology poetry

    'Mountains are constant but continually changing. Captive to the seasons, they reveal many faces: in winter shrouded in snow and mist, yet so visibly majestic in the summer months that they appear to touch the sky. Lost in clouds at times, so discernible at others. Places of solitude yet at the mercy of mountaineers who swarm them. Both revered and feared; mystical and earthy; elusive but tangible. Does the mystery of mountains lie in the many paradoxes that surround them?

    'Join more than 150 poets from across Australia in a tantalising exploration of mountains around the world, real and imagined, literal and figurative.'  (Publication summary)

    Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2019
    pg. 177
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