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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Moxie
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'Moxie traverses the office landscape of our collective psyche, restlessly moving between the interior monologue of daily ruminations and epic-like career narratives lying in wait. The hustle gives way to survival, cresting back into gritty victories via the feminist acquisition of corporate language. Open-plan everything, filing cabinets bursting; the promise of the ladder, beckoning you in.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2020 .
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      Courtesy of Fremantle Press.
      Extent: 70p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 February 2020
      ISBN: 9781925735192 (pbk)

Works about this Work

Moxie By Melinda Bufton Alison Clifton , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 9 2021;

— Review of Moxie Melinda Bufton , 2020 selected work poetry

'The winner of the 2019 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award, Melinda Bufton’s Moxie is a delightfully dark, wryly observed, feminist-staged corporate takeover of the language of business and commerce. The speaker of the poems is a young woman with more than moxie to recommend her – even through her phases of self-doubt or submission to the company machine, she has chutzpah and inner strength as she rails against the monotony, misogyny, and relentless soul-selling. Of the many threads of meaning in this collection, the most striking is the resurfacing of the imagery of clothing and appearance.'(Introduction)

Moxie By Melinda Bufton Alison Clifton , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 9 2021;

— Review of Moxie Melinda Bufton , 2020 selected work poetry

'The winner of the 2019 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award, Melinda Bufton’s Moxie is a delightfully dark, wryly observed, feminist-staged corporate takeover of the language of business and commerce. The speaker of the poems is a young woman with more than moxie to recommend her – even through her phases of self-doubt or submission to the company machine, she has chutzpah and inner strength as she rails against the monotony, misogyny, and relentless soul-selling. Of the many threads of meaning in this collection, the most striking is the resurfacing of the imagery of clothing and appearance.'(Introduction)

Awards

2019 winner Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest for unpublished manuscript 'Moxie'.
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