Emily Stewart Emily Stewart i(A101899 works by) (a.k.a. Emily Anne Stewart)
Also writes as: 'Bernie Malley'
Born: Established: 1987 ;
Gender: Female
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1 This Is a Loving Artwork i "remove the lens cap", Emily Stewart , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 130-135)
1 Deadpanning Pamela Brown , Emily Stewart , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 34 2022;
1 3 y separately published work icon Running Time Emily Stewart , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2022 23670467 2022 selected work poetry

'A fine-tuned book-length assemblage of dispersed ‘cerebral offcuts’, virtuosically inventing ‘the shape of a mood’. Nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual: ‘following some line’ of ‘live consciousness’, ‘inner in outer’, ‘what’s around’. Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax. Condensed, sharp pops of resonant fragments create their own fresh textures and juxtapositions.

'The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2021 judges (Kate Lilley, Pam Brown and Melinda Bufton) praised Running Time as 'nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual ... Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax.' (Publication summary)

1 New Year's Eve Eve i "I'm not the only mammal living here", Emily Stewart , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 152)
1 My Dearest Wish Emily Stewart , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 24-30 April 2021;
1 Good Luck Emily Stewart , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 24-30 April 2021;
1 Sky Updates / Blue Platform i "chain of events against family", Emily Stewart , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry in Lockdown 2020;
1 From Northbourne Ave i "How vulnerable the body's archive", Emily Stewart , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 August no. 92 2019;
1 Vagabond DeciBels3 Launch Speech by Emily Stewart Emily Stewart , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;

'I have been metabolising Michelle Cahill’s work on interceptionality, a term she has been dissecting and championing over three essays with the Sydney Review of Books, the latest published this week. I am deeply interested in her rich theorisation, which is seen in practice with the activism of Mascara Literary Review, interception being a pragmatic, principled approach that can, in Michelle’s words, ‘unmask entitlement and inaugurate dialogue’ but which also, and this is really important – offer creative protection. Creative protection, because the intercepts that Michelle enacts are highly generative actions. Her activism – each tweet, email, newsletter – that calls for better representation and equitable opportunities for CALD writers opens up new sites of potential. I’ve been thinking through what the use of a launch speech might be within an interceptional framework – and indeed where it even fits within the publishing ecology, as it’s not a review, or criticism, but is significant nonetheless, creating a shape and a language for how books will be talked about by others. The launch speech is a powerful object as it oftentimes sets the tone for the critical discourse that will follow. So how to mobilise it?' (Introduction)

1 From Conglomerates i "Myself I saw the first tender shoots of Gehry", Emily Stewart , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 87 2018;
1 American Forests Are Moving West and Nobody Knows Why i "royal blue", Emily Stewart , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 2 y separately published work icon Knocks Emily Stewart , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2016 9539400 2016 selected work poetry

'Knocks is the debut collection from one of the most exacting writers of Australian poetry’s new wave. Stewart’s poetry consistently surprises in its formal range, encompassing sonnets, erasures and found poetry, and striking at the level of the image –“the computer ecstasy of first-person”. The collection conveys the sense of an extended, “stretched” present, politically shadowed, where “it is commendable / to sign up each day, but better / to maintain a patina of disobedient / actions, shoplifting or whatever”.' (Source: Publisher's website)

1 Historical Winter i "The composition of any given aura is a painterly", Emily Stewart , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 53.0 2016;
1 Bright Islands i "vitrine containing sand, stone, paper", Leah Muddle , Ella O'Keefe , Emily Stewart , Sian Vate , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 106-108)
1 Review Short : Rachael Munro’s Indigo Morning Emily Stewart , 2015 single work single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;

— Review of Indigo Morning : Selected Poems Rachael Munro , 2013 selected work poetry
1 Holiday Highlights (For Your Reading Pleasure) Alice Grundy , Portia Lindsay , Emily Stewart , Thomas Wilson , Kate O'Donnell , Lily Mei Murray , Emily Meller , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , December 2015;
1 Always the Bride i "For my third wedding I used disposable plates", Emily Stewart , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 November 2015; (p. 30) The Saturday Age , 14-15 November 2015; (p. 30)
1 Memory Palace i "Crisis of affection—a tulip, the flower—artificial yellow", Emily Stewart , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;
1 Good Friday i "Your carefulness was a waste", Emily Stewart , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 51.1 2015;
1 Baby i "Give me something honest, like a", Emily Stewart , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Feminartsy , June 2014;
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