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1 Jigs and Reels i "There are fish swimming the shallows, Jack hopes to catch", Rhiannon Hall , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 9 no. 1 2021; (p. 88)
1 The Colour of Shame i "Curves and a cause, curves and", Rhiannon Hall , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Inside Me, My Voice Struggles to Get Out Rhiannon Hall , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , May vol. 10 no. 1 2020;

'Poetry has the capacity to allow many voices to speak and this is what makes the verse novel a unique form through which limiting understandings of the teenage experience can be challenged. Robert Petrone, Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides and Mark A Lewis seek to re-vision the assumptions that young people in general are naïve, self-interested, moody, hormonal, volatile, and risk takers. They have therefore introduced the term Youth Lens (Petrone et al 2014). This critical lens offers an approach to literary representations of adolescents and young adults that challenges ‘reductive, deficit views of young people; and [conceptualises] youth as complex, contradictory individuals, not fully determined by the body’ (ibid: 3). The multi-voiced verse novel enables explorations of real difference. An analysis of the multiple, distinct voices in Catherine Bateson’s poetic representations of adolescent experiences reveals the complexity of youth as a category. This paper will focus on how the voices in Bateson’s young adult verse novel His Name in Fire are made distinct through the lexicon and diction of the characters. An analysis of this text through a Youth Lens reveals that Bateson is attuned to a diverse range of personalities and experiences that constitute the category of youth.' (Publication abstract)

1 Café Rosso i "grey thunders Bowral skies", Rhiannon Hall , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sotto , August-September 2012;
1 Retirement and a Goat Rhiannon Hall , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seeking the Sun : Australian Poetry 2012 2012; (p. 46)
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