Maureen O'Shaughnessy Maureen O'Shaughnessy i(A120972 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The Bridge i "Yellow grass sprouting on the plains behind Dalgety, earth-moving machines", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Saltbush Review , no. 2 2022;
1 y separately published work icon The Truth about A The Truth about Antigone Maureen O'Shaughnessy , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2017 11322283 2017 selected work poetry

'In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles, Brecht, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson and, most particularly, Euripides. Set in contemporary Sydney, among a fictional underworld family, The Truth about A not only considers the issue of whether to obey the law or your conscience but delves into the nature of the creative impulse and the eternal bonds and chasms between generations. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, provokes the fury of the crime-overlord Creon with her profound sense of honour, family and duty. But this spirit of defiance raises questions infinitely more complex than the brute facts of power and order, engendering a meditation on justice, ethics and personal judgement.' (Publication Summary)

1 At the Wingecarribee River i "There are clues in its double existence, this river", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 6 2016;
1 1 y separately published work icon Lakeland Maureen O'Shaughnessy , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2015 9071592 2015 single work novel war literature

'Lakeland is a hybrid novel, a fictional recreation told in prose and verse of the lives of multiple characters in one family. Inspired by real events, the story moves in and out of Nazi Germany, across the two hemispheres and through generations of exile and emigration. In the first years of the twentieth century, Anna, a young woman from a middle-class family, gives birth, unmarried, to twins. While she keeps her son, her illegitimate daughter Helene is raised by the state and later ‘adopted’ by her aunt so as to be allowed to marry Hans, an affluent Prussian industrialist. Hans is captured by the Russians in 1945 and imprisoned near Leningrad, where he dies in a gulag. Helene twice flees with her children, first to the Communist East then to West Germany, where in the early 60s her daughter Sieglinde meets and marries an Australian. He takes her to Sydney, then to Melbourne, where they have a family of their own, rapidly producing seven children who know little of their mother’s past. Lakeland cross-cuts between the intimacies of family life and the world at large. Capturing incidents of love and doubt, loss and reunion, rupture and resistance, the many voices together build a collective memoir that speaks of what we may work to conceal but can never escape.' (Publication summary)

1 Moorhens i "Here grass grows all the way to the raised sky.", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , 20 Mar vol. 11 no. 2014;
1 How I Have Felt that Thing that’s Called ‘to Part’ i "It was the fifth morning and I’d heard her all night,", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poems 2013 : Volume of the Australian Poetry Members Anthology 2013; (p. 105-107)
1 Rubber Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 27 2012; (p. 20-23)
'Kathy's working at Vero's café. She feels nauseous on the bus, her first bout of motion sickness. She gets off a stop early and for the rest of the week she walks. She's three days late which means one thing.' (Author's abstract)
1 In My Grandfather’s Surgery i "The rules were", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Metabolism 2012; (p. 80)
1 Chapter of Accidents i "Once, when living on a street lined with derelict pubs", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hide Your Fires : 2012 UTS Writers' Anthology 2012; (p. 161-164)
1 Fish Dream Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Hide Your Fires : 2012 UTS Writers' Anthology 2012; (p. 89-90)
1 Thursday, July 15 i "It's an army of dead, lines of imported faces strung on the walls", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 125 2011; (p. 53-55)
1 Rick Grossman : The Trip Home Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2010 single work biography
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2010 2010; (p. 98-104)
1 The No. 08 Tram i "In the seat across, a hand as big as a cabbage", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: SWAMP , October vol. 5 no. 2009;
1 Hospital Visit i "Drifting", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 118 2009; (p. 195)
1 Helena Leonhardt i "My grandmother looked nothing", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: BlueDog , December vol. 7 no. 14 2008; (p. 16)
1 Hairpins i "They walked my mother's head", Maureen O'Shaughnessy , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: BlueDog , December vol. 7 no. 14 2008; (p. 15)
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