Helen Burns Helen Burns i(A130311 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Andal's Garland Helen Burns , Fyshwick : Odyssey Books , 2021 23094585 2021 single work novel

'In eighth century India, Andal is born into a world where girls are married and with child by fourteen. Defying the mores of her time, she refuses marriage to a mortal man. Only a god will do. Andal’s imagination is boundless and her antics set the town’s tongues wagging. As Andal becomes more and more absorbed by her visions, she composes songs to her divine lover.

'Saisha discovers Andal’s songs in a book on a trip to India with her partner Marcus. The verses are confronting and unearth memories Saisha thought were long ago buried. Not only is she unable to conceive, for the past two decades Marcus has chosen celibacy. What defines her as a woman when these two primal desires remain unfulfilled?

'Andal’s words are deceptively simple, yet shine a lamp on the labyrinths of Saisha’s sexuality and her quest to find peace with the choices she has made.'

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1 Timeless Stories for Troubled Times Helen Burns , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;

— Review of Jungle Without Water and Other Stories Sreedhevi Iyer , 2017 selected work short story

''The title story ‘Jungle Without Water’ about a devout young Sikh newly migrated to Australia is perfectly placed at the beginning of this often humorous, but also heart rending, collection. It’s a story about navigation. Jogi needs to find a place to pray in Brisbane and is shown a refidex. It seemed ‘almost as big as the Holy Granth Sahib. Jogi imagined his mother’s surprize at the notion of a book that only existed to tell how to travel around a city’ (9).' (Introduction)

1 Shengxiu's Mirror Koan i "I have dust on my mirror", Helen Burns , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: All the Way Home : Poetry from Byron Bay and Beyond 2009; (p. 67)
1 Crumble and Tea i "I sit opposit my mother", Helen Burns , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: All the Way Home : Poetry from Byron Bay and Beyond 2009; (p. 52-53)
1 Crossing the River i "He is crossing the dark whispering", Helen Burns , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: All the Way Home : Poetry from Byron Bay and Beyond 2009; (p. 20-21)
1 In the Morning i "she comes", Helen Burns , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: All the Way Home : Poetry from Byron Bay and Beyond 2009; (p. 4-5)
1 War Baby i "Shape of a wedding", Helen Burns , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 39 2009; (p. 106-107) All the Way Home : Poetry from Byron Bay and Beyond 2009; (p. 46-47)
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