Tais Rose Tais Rose i(19819823 works by) (a.k.a. Tai Rose Wae)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 Looking at Pippy Shells from Your Hands i "The veil", Tais Rose , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 10 2023; (p. 62)
1 y separately published work icon Riverbed Sky Songs Tais Rose , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2023 26043231 2023 selected work poetry

'Riverbed Sky Songs is an admiration and imagining of the inherent links between ecosystems and the human experience. The poetry collection challenges colonial form and storytelling and is tenderly woven across the page to mirror Wae’s connection to Country; found in moments of enamour amidst soft pockets of moss at the edge of a riverbed, in the reminder of strength and of spirit as reflected in the surface of a pearl, to the ancestral songs and knowing that are passed on through blood. It is an ode to the legacy of labour, power, courage and love of writers before us, and an offering of an ember to our children who will keep the fires of care and culture burning. Riverbed Sky Songs is a transformative process of discovery that enacts as a reminder to return, to walk gently, and to listen with as great a depth as the seabed alongside which many of these poems were remembered and recalled.' (Publication summary)

1 Yellow Gully i "in childhood", Tais Rose , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 Second Skin i "When I talk about the", Tais Rose , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , February no. 104 2022;
1 Oysters i "Shaping shell through sentiment in sediment", Tais Rose , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2021; (p. 59) Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 168)
1 From a Place, Unknown i "Acacia all black", Tais Rose , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2020;
1 Ganngalehla (Listening, Knowing, Feeling) i "Burning camphors line the creek", Tais Rose , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 15)
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