Anne Benjamin Anne Benjamin i(A109744 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 [Untitled Tanka] i "it is so quiet", Anne Benjamin , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 34 2023; (p. 23)
1 Shadow Box Anne Benjamin , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Relatively True : Stories of Truth, Deception, Post Truth from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia 2022;
1 [Untitled Tanka] Anne Benjamin , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 33 2022; (p. 33)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 32 2022; (p. 17)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal 2021; (p. 7)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 30 2021; (p. 40)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 28 2020; (p. 9)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 27 2019; (p. 43)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 27 2019; (p. 13)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 26 2019; (p. 39)
1 [Untitled] Anne Benjamin , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 26 2019; (p. 34)
1 Last Night on Mount Zion i "what were we thinking when we clambered up", Anne Benjamin , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Solace : Poems from the 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry 2019; (p. 8-10)
1 Lute Music i "As you nuzzle at my breast, you hold me:", Anne Benjamin , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Empathy : Poems from the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry 2018; (p. 5-6)
1 The Morning After i "the lawyer's phone call drags him", Anne Benjamin , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 16 2016; (p. 10-11)
1 2 y separately published work icon Saffron and Silk : An Australian in India Anne Benjamin , Kew East : David Lovell Publishing , 2016 10147416 2016 single work autobiography

'‘But he’s a stranger,’ my mother lamented when I announced my intention to marry. I suspect that this might be the cry of every mother when her daughter announces her intentions to marry anyone but the boy-next-door.

In this case, Mum had a point. Neither she nor Dad had met the man in question. In fact, he had never set foot in Australia.

Three months later, I stood with my new husband in the light of early evening beneath an arch in the gardens of the hotel Ashoka in the South Indian city of Chennai…' (Publication extract)

1 Leaving the Island i "You arrive with little notice -", Anne Benjamin , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 15 2015; (p. 5)
1 Spider Face : A Memoir Anne Benjamin , 2014 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 14 2014; (p. 10-11)
1 Dictionary i "Fourteen hundred years ago, King Ethelbert of Kent", Anne Benjamin , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Language of Compassion : Poetry from the Second ACU Literature Prize 2014; (p. 34-35)
1 Wind at Pauanui i "I've come alone to this rain-forest", Anne Benjamin , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 13 2013; (p. 60)
1 Untitled i "early spring", Anne Benjamin , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 13 2012; (p. 26)
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