Roberta Lowing Roberta Lowing i(A100770 works by)
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1 Bird, Grieving Roberta Lowing , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Crossing : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2023 2023;
1 y separately published work icon This Attic of Fire Roberta Lowing , Sydney : Apothecary Archive , 2021 23821059 2021 selected work poetry

'Recent decades have seen ceaseless catastrophes created by governments' failure to engage with the environmental-political reality of climate change.

'In her third poetry collection, journalist and film critic Roberta Lowing, author of the Asher Award-winning Iraq war sequence Ruin, and the Prime Minister's Award and Commonwealth Book Prize-nominated Notorious, responds to the domino effect of human-made environmental damage.

'This Attic of Fire is a political work that strives to demonstrate how relevant - and revelatory - poetry can be to a modern society.

'This is poetry as an act of protest and a place of sanctuary.'(Publication summary)

1 Photograph : Sunrise, Syria, August 2017 i "At first, only desert: red-baked outer night,", Roberta Lowing , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Empathy : Poems from the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry 2018; (p. 47-48)
1 Do Not Read This Wall i "The caves etched with charcoal mammoths eating spears are long gone but the", Roberta Lowing , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 South Roberta Lowing , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Out of Place : Prose Poems and Microfiction 2015; (p. 95)
1 The River i "The bend of the river is silver in the late afternoon,", Roberta Lowing , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Guide to Sydney Rivers 2015; (p. 45)
1 y separately published work icon The Searchers Roberta Lowing , Woodford : Island Press , 2014 8849243 2014 selected work poetry
1 After the Dream, the Awakening : 100 Years of Australian Celluloid Aspirations Roberta Lowing , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 74 no. 3 2014;
1 Democracy i "it will not be simple", Roberta Lowing , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 13)
1 Quota i "A scintilla, nothing in itself:", Roberta Lowing , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Language of Compassion : Poetry from the Second ACU Literature Prize 2014; (p. 81-82)
1 The C Word i "C used to belong", Roberta Lowing , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , Winter no. 9 2013; (p. 23)
1 y separately published work icon My Pet Octopus is a Top Darts Player Roberta Lowing , Australia : Wutheringink , 2013 10929593 2013 single work children's fiction children's

'Anyone who has ever seen an octopus suddenly change colour – or take the cap off a bottle or squeeze through a tiny space – knows what magical creatures they are.

'Ten year old Emily Dickinson is about to discover just how magical. On the worst day of her life, she makes two unusual friends: one who has two legs, and one who has eight.

Can her new friends help Emily stand up to the school bullies? Find out in this fantastical adventure which is packed full of jokes, poems and action.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 In the Laneway i "And voices come over the back fences, and the phutt phutt phutt", Roberta Lowing , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2011 2011; (p. 106-107) Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 128-129)
1 y separately published work icon Ruin Roberta Lowing , Carindale : Interactive Press , 2010 Z1745137 2010 selected work poetry

'Poetry. RUIN is one of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War (2003 - 20??). Using four distinctive voices, and constructed almost as a thriller, Roberta Lowing's 55 poems re-create the devastating invasion and years of betrayal and heartbreak--and moments of hope and illumination--endured by Iraqi civilians and American soldiers. RUIN pays tribute to the Twentieth Century's greatest humanist poets and resonates with the influences of Neruda, Levertov, Celan and more. This work is of our time for our time, a collection which expresses the anxieties and aspirations of all those who resist the dark forces shaking our world.' (Publication summary)

1 7 y separately published work icon Notorious Roberta Lowing , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2010 Z1732086 2010 single work novel

'She came walking out of the desert, just as the famous poet had centuries before. Impossible for them both to have survived that relentless furnace, that destroyer of all life.

Now the nameless woman lies horribly scarred and close to death in an Asylum deep in the North African desert. An Australian official, a man code-named John Devlin, has come to question her, despite the protests of her carers. It is clear that the woman and Devlin share some kind of past, and all kinds of secrets - but the greatest secret is the one she will die to protect.

As the wind calls up a deadly sandstorm, the inhabitants of the Asylum discover they are linked by a diary written by the poet Rimbaud, who in 1890 also confronted the implacable power of the desert. Over the next one hundred and twenty years, everyone who sees the diary will want it. Most will do anything to possess it.

For some, like ruthless Polish aristocrat Aleksander Walenska, the diary holds secrets that will bring him riches and power. For his troubled and religious son Czeslaw, it is a book of death, a penance to be fulfilled by sacrifice. For Czeslaw's sister, it is a book of the desert which, if returned to its rightful home, will redeem her family's name. For Devlin, broken by his own ghosts, and with one final chance to make amends, the diary is worthless; the desert not a place of revelation, but the birthplace of modern terrorism.

Only the woman, whose dark past is entwined with those who would possess the diary at any cost, sees the true worth of the book. As she surrenders to the transformative power of the desert, only she understands how it exalts the secrets mapped on the diary's precious pages.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 Dragons i "It must be very lonely to be the last dragon on earth, the only", Roberta Lowing , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 18 April 2010; (p. 13)
1 Climate Change i "It doesn't look like a sky it looks like milky beer", Roberta Lowing , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , March vol. 69 no. 1 2010; (p. 233) The Best Australian Poems 2010 2010; (p. 159-160)
1 The Ocean. Middle Of. i "Maybe this was our place all along: citizens", Roberta Lowing , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Dog , vol. 8 no. 15 2009; (p. 66)
1 Neda i "you lie on your back", Roberta Lowing , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , November no. 6 2009;
1 The Country Behind Us i "Strangers who drove through Badourie in 1938 The Country Behind Us", Roberta Lowing , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , November no. 6 2009;
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