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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Wear of My Face
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'The sun is our closest star just average a middle-aged dwarf past its prime but still a few billion years to go and fierce is its heat Its domains: interior surface atmospheres inner corona outer corona Did someone say Corona?

'The Wear of My Face is an assemblage of passing lives and landscapes, fractured worlds and realities. There is splintered text and image, memory and dream, newscast and conversation. Women wicker first light, old men make things that glow, poets are standing stones, frontlines merge with tourist lines. Lizz Murphy weaves these elements into the strangeness of suburbia, the intensity of waiting rooms, bush stillness, and hopes for a leap of faith as at times she leaves a poem as fragmented as a hectic day or a bombed street. What may sometimes seem like misdemeanours of the mind, to Lizz they are simply the distractions and disturbances of daily life somewhere. There is a rehomed greyhound, a breezy scientist, ancient malleefowl, beige union reps and people in all their conundrums. You might travel on a seagull’s wing or wing through the aerosphere.'

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    • North Melbourne, Flemington - North Melbourne area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Spinifex Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 112p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2021
      ISBN: 9781925950342

Works about this Work

Climbing Back up Your Own Silk String Lizz Murphy , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 13 no. 1 2023;
'It all started with my playbook titled Typewriter: Used by a newspaper’s office. You might say Typewriter: Used by a newspaper’s office is a found object — I found it on a half-price table in the local chemist. I was delighted when I opened the package fully and discovered that the old-fashioned typewriter ‘plaque’ was actually the cover of a brown paper journal. You have to love brown paper.' (Introduction)
[Review] The Wear of My Face Sarah-Jane Whiteley , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 40-41)

— Review of The Wear of My Face Lizz Murphy , 2021 selected work poetry
A Room of Mirrors : Hazel Hall Reviews Lizz Murphy’s ‘the wear of my face’ Hazel Hall , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2021;

— Review of The Wear of My Face Lizz Murphy , 2021 selected work poetry
A Room of Mirrors : Hazel Hall Reviews Lizz Murphy’s ‘the wear of my face’ Hazel Hall , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2021;

— Review of The Wear of My Face Lizz Murphy , 2021 selected work poetry
[Review] The Wear of My Face Sarah-Jane Whiteley , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 40-41)

— Review of The Wear of My Face Lizz Murphy , 2021 selected work poetry
Climbing Back up Your Own Silk String Lizz Murphy , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 13 no. 1 2023;
'It all started with my playbook titled Typewriter: Used by a newspaper’s office. You might say Typewriter: Used by a newspaper’s office is a found object — I found it on a half-price table in the local chemist. I was delighted when I opened the package fully and discovered that the old-fashioned typewriter ‘plaque’ was actually the cover of a brown paper journal. You have to love brown paper.' (Introduction)
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