Pat Hoffie Pat Hoffie i(A116134 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon The Days Run Away : Recent Work by Ian Friend Pat Hoffie , Richard Humphreys , Samuel Wagan Watson , Angela Gardner , Laurie Duggan , Woolloongabba : Art Bunker , 2021 24810745 2021 anthology poetry prose essay art work 'Essays, poems and ephemera that provide insight into the work of UK/Australian artist Ian Friend. The book is illustrated with full colour images and details of Friend's work.' (Publication summary)
1 Birthday Present i "with concentrated grim", Pat Hoffie , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Our Inside Voices : Reflections on COVID-19 2020; (p. 125-127)
1 The Lockdown (A Self-indulgent Facebook Confessional) Pat Hoffie , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Our Inside Voices : Reflections on COVID-19 2020; (p. 1-7)
1 Stranger Than the Dreams of Ptoleemy : The Antipodean Challenge to Western Thinking Pat Hoffie , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 69 2020; (p. 103-112)
'The extent to which the seventeenth-century Dutch 'discovery' of the great southern continent we now call Australia had a cataclysmic impact on European cosmology is open to conjecture. But it is certain that the historical failures by Europeans to 'see' or understand the realities of the Australian land, its people and its creatures — as evidenced throughout history - have continued right up to the present. Despite the inadequacies of European tropes, genres, classification systems and ways of thinking in coming to terms with the challenges of understanding this southern continent, northern hemisphere frameworks of thinking in the sciences and humanities still persist.' (Introduction) 
 
1 Chronicles of the Maiwar Mangroves Pat Hoffie , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 66 2019; (p. 118-130)
1 At Home with Strays, Strayers and Stayers Pat Hoffie , 2018 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 61 2018; (p. 92-96)

‘Straylya’. That's how I can remember first hearing it – stray-lya – as if it was a place filled with strays. I wasn’t aware at that very young age of paying too much attention to the origins of the country’s name. But later I recall a growing sense of satisfaction that it suited the place my small family had decided to make their home. My parents had been dedicated strayers well before they got here. They’d ridden motorbikes all across Scotland and the north of England in the postwar years. Proud owners of a BSA Golden Flash, they were members of a club that set off each weekend to rumble through the Royal Mile and head out beyond the Edinburgh boundary lines, into the moorlands and hills and glens. When I came along there was a sidecar added, and I became the club’s baby. Lots of pictures of me being passed around – all rugged up with fat, wind-chafed cheeks – to members posing proudly by bikes lined up against backgrounds of fairly grim grey landscapes. Looking back at those old photos now, I realise the club was training me in the art of straying.

1 Snake Eyes Pat Hoffie , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , April no. 40 2013; (p. 83-91)
1 Two Tales of the Sea - The Mermaid Story Pat Hoffie , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: The Griffith Review , no. 42 2013; (p. 114-118)
1 Two Tales of the Sea - The Boat Story Pat Hoffie , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: The Griffith Review , no. 42 2013; (p. 119-122)
1 I Love Travel Pat Hoffie , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Spring no. 37 2012; (p. 75-83)
1 The Best in the World Pat Hoffie , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Winter no. 36 2012; (p. 72-79)
1 Scratch the Surface : Trespass Pat Hoffie , 2008 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Spring no. 21 2008; (p. 250-253)
1 (See) Beijing Youth Daily Pat Hoffie , 2007 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Summer no. 18 2007; (p. 117-124)
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