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Alternative title: Memoir
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 7 September 2020 of Not Very Quiet est. 2017 Not Very Quiet
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'We are delighted at the response to Issue 7 – Memoir. It’s our biggest yet with over 500 poems received from near and far: every continent represented, except for Antarctica and South America.

'It’s very clear to us that women poets wanted to write and share poems for this Memoir issue that ‘resonate with the desire or compulsion to revisit, relive, interrogate, reinterpret, record and recreate the past’.

'The provocation is consonant with the times we are living through. Poets used it as an opportunity to look back, to explore many different memories. A compelling trigger for reflection, speculation, reconciliation and closure but for some it led to uncomfortable, disturbing and challenging memories and often raw personal writing.

'It was a great privilege to read the submissions and a very difficult task to narrow down the choices for publication. This is a weighty Issue in every sense. A very diverse collection of eighty poems that ranges from narratives to short lyrics in a variety of forms drawing upon direct experience and the transformative effect of poetry.

'We want to thank sincerely every poet who submitted their poems to Issue 7 of Not Very Quiet.

'We also want to acknowledge the poets who contributed audio recordings of readings of their poems and thank Melinda Smith who contributed a review article of collections by the four Canberra-based Not Very Quiet editors. Finally, we thank guest editor Anne Casey and feature artist Teena McCarthy for their substantial contributions to this issue.' (Moya Pacey and Sandra Renew, The past is all about us and within https://not-very-quiet.com/2020/09/14/the-past-is-all-about-us/)

Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    The Homes of Others by Sahana Ahmed

    Millennium by Wendy BooydeGraaff

    List of Illustrations by Siobhán Carroll

    Elegy For Me and My Mother by Teresa T. Chappell

    Slow Food by Chris Collins

    That Velvet Skirt Ann Cuthbert

    Biology Homework by Olga Dermott-Bond

    Chronicle of Lost Moments by Lara Dolphin 

    Leaving the First State Home I was Placed In by Karen Downs-Barton

    a house i remember that isn’t mine by Ariana Eftimiu

    Little Scissors byLara Frankena

    Pandora’s Kitchen by Allison Goldstein

    Building Memories (a sequence) by Siobhan Harvey

    That Woman by Ariel Horton

    HIROSHIMA by Susan Howard

    For the Girl Who Worked in Leonard Hall by Katherine Hughes

    Kitchen by Linda Kernan

    Redbird by Kara Knickerbocker

    How to Make a Snow Angel by Emma Lee 

    I Presented at Your Surgery Still Wearing the Opaque Wristband by Wes Lee

    Speak for your mother to keep her memories alive by Sally K Lehman

    Hospice Sonnet by Sandi Leibowitz

    Taking a picture by Sameeya Maqbool

    Things Learned Sadie Maskery

    Scraps of a Life by Cynthia J. McGean

    Loop by Alexa Mergen

    Family Landscape : Colchester 1957 by Kate Meyer-Currey

    Death without a Body by Emily Mosley

    Gaslit by E.R. Murray

    Watt and the Onion by Jilly O'Brien

    The shore you left me by Lisa Olsen

    Lake Havasu, Arizona: late 60s camping trip by Alyson Osborn

    Outside A Pocket, 1947 by Mandira Pattnaik

    Karanga by Sarah Penwarden

    Brown Snake Awakens in the Everywhen by Fiona Perry

    misInheritance by Autumn Riley

    A Daughter Returns by Anne Ryland

    Bird’s Song by Preeti Shah

    To Grow by Brittany Smart

    Fair Warning by Abigail Stuart

    60 Degrees North by Lynda Turbet

    An olive rolls under the fridge by Anna Veprinska

    Cognates for a Floodplain by Maggie Wang

    Memoir (advanced reader’s copy) by Natalie Welber

    Bioluminescence by Anne Wilding

    This is My Secret by Kai Zwiebel

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
On Not Having Kidsi"It would have to be something big you said", Anne M. Carson , single work poetry
My First Issue of Ms.i"I was at Auckland Airport (why)?", Jennifer Compton , single work poetry
In a Section of the Museum We Find, P. S. Cottier , single work poetry
On Joy Hester’s Late Portraits of Girlsi"Sun behind her on threadbare floor,", Sally Denshire , single work poetry
Staying with the Grey Sisters at Age 3¼i"In the inchoate umber of a May", Anne Elvey , single work poetry
In / Deliblei"the bald-eyed camera, obsidian-pupiled. it exposes everything. that trick", Ellie Fisher , single work poetry
The Lessoni"There we were in the photo, heads above the clear", Kathryn Fry , single work poetry
MEMOIRi"i’m writing in the dark", Carolyn Gerrish , single work poetry
How to Make a Funeral Wreathi"I’m fourteen. Big enough to work at the florist’s shop on Saturday", Hazel Hall , single work poetry
The Expat Reconsidersi"I’m back planting shoots", Dominique Hecq , single work poetry
The Garlic Wifei"my parents honeymooned", Nellie Le Beau , single work poetry
Terra Incognitai"On the map of who I am, this is the ripped edge:", Rachael Mead , single work poetry
Tale of an Australian Opali"This fairy-wren of a woman (oxygen tubed into her nose, head nestled in", Helen Moore , single work poetry
Nanii"A-1/177 Safdarjung Enclave.", Kavita Nandan , single work poetry
The Papering of Distancei"I picked out an old letter the other day", Denise O'Hagan , single work poetry
I Do Remember The Walli"The Monkey Puzzle, a prehistoric tower of a tree, stood at the laneway", Rosa O'Kane , single work poetry
Grandmother’s Quilti"Each line on grandmother’s rumpled", Vera Oko , single work poetry
Note:

https://not-very-quiet.com/2020/09/14/grandmothers-quilt/
Mother Is a Cycloi"Mother is a cyclo.", Vanessa Page , single work poetry
A Crimson Rosella on Wednesday Tradingi"An old woman visited us in the store today,", Helena Bryony Parker , single work poetry
Public Pool, Women’s Changing Roomi"The daring, naked beauty of the changing rooms. It flops and bulges, full", Stephanie Powell , single work poetry
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