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Annamaria Weldon Annamaria Weldon i(A110042 works by) (birth name: Anna Maria Mercieca) (a.k.a. Anna Maria Weldon)
Also writes as: Anna Castillo
Born: Established: 1950
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Malta,
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1984
Heritage: Maltese
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1 5 y separately published work icon Stone Mother Tongue Annamaria Weldon , Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 2018 14701074 2018 selected work poetry

'Malta—‘a slight blemish on the sea’s glaze’—forms the beating heart of Stone Mother Tongue, poems fired into existence by Annamaria Weldon’s experience of clambering over temples and monuments built by her ancestors. Now part of her psyche, they are melded with a wider experience of Australia as an ancient land. For Weldon, life is ‘all context and erasure’. When she writes of the masons knowing ‘which prayers to chant while hammering’, her poems entwine the land with a human history many thousands of years in the making.

- Kevin Brophy

'Meditative, delicate and restrained, these poems are nonetheless full of vivid realities: the ‘undersong’ of womanhood, family, loss, carob trees, wild rosemary, figs, geckoes, mother’s milk – and psychotropic chickpeas. Delving into her Maltese heritage, Annamaria Weldon shows us how the migrant’s encounter with Australia provokes a reinterpretation of ‘home’, a grappling with place of origin.

- Tracy Ryan'   (Publication summary)

1 Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni, Malta i "I went where she reigned", Annamaria Weldon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Western Australia 2017;
1 In the National Museum of Maltese Archaeology i "We met at the Neolithic display. I was staring", Annamaria Weldon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Western Australia 2017;
1 Stone Mother Tongue i "Alabaster: such a beautiful word for silence.", Annamaria Weldon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Western Australia 2017;
1 Goddess We Trample i "Archipelago, sleeping goddess whose body", Annamaria Weldon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Western Australia 2017;
1 Ghost Flock i "While women scanned the horizon, fishers", Annamaria Weldon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 396 2017; (p. 24) States of Poetry - Western Australia 2017;
1 In the Store-Room of Antiquities i "Lifting a wrecked ship’s amphora, an infant-sized container, skin scabrous and", Annamaria Weldon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March vol. 57 no. 1 2017;
1 The Trouble with Purple Annamaria Weldon , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Purple Prose 2015; (p. 105-115)
1 My Father's Icons i "At first light I found you knee deep in rye grass, green", Annamaria Weldon , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Regime , no. 5 2015; (p. 153-154)
1 Untrue Distinctions Annamaria Weldon , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'Amour 2015 : Love Poems 2014; (p. 94)
1 6 y separately published work icon The Lake's Apprentice Annamaria Weldon , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2014 7039149 2014 selected work poetry

'How do we describe a place? Annamaria Weldon offers an intimate portrait of the chain of lakes that include Lake Yalgorup between Mandurah and Bunbury on Australia's south-west coast. The Lake's Apprentice contains a suite of poems, with celebrated essays and photographs and nature notes cognisant of current environmental research. This elegant testimony collapses time, evoking the long past of Bindjareb Noongar land use, and thinks through to a resilient future.' (Publication abstract)

1 Freeway Auguries i "Coming east to find you, I drive until", Annamaria Weldon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Love Poems 2013 2013; (p. 23)
1 Collaborators Annamaria Weldon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'amour Anthology 2014 : Love Poems 2013; (p. 42)
1 Hill Climbing for Lovers Annamaria Weldon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'amour Anthology 2014 : Love Poems 2013; (p. 25)
1 The Holding Dark Annamaria Weldon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'amour Anthology 2014 : Love Poems 2013; (p. 18)
1 After Devotion i "The far margin of wintering wetlands,", Annamaria Weldon , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 339 2012; (p. 26)
1 y separately published work icon Threshold Country Annamaria Weldon , 2011 (Manuscript version)x402156 Z1764316 2011 single work essay

'The essay is set in Mandurah and, in part, tells the story of a Maltese woman learning to feel at home, and to live slowly, on the west coast of Australia. It also is about the story of landscapes and in particular Yalgorup Country.'

Source: Annamaria Weldon's website, http://www.annamariaweldon.com.au/
Sighted: 07/03/2011

1 Médecins Sans Frontières i "In the Sudan", Annamaria Weldon , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creatrix , 9 October no. 14 2011;
1 Behold i "Each dusk is holy hour at the lake", Annamaria Weldon , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creatrix , 9 October no. 14 2011;
1 Seamless i "If sound is the last sense to leave me", Annamaria Weldon , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creatrix , September no. 10 2010;
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