Tamryn Bennett Tamryn Bennett i(A134655 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 La Cuna i "Mother has no baby", Tamryn Bennett , Guillermo R. Batiz , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
1 Outside the Lines Tamryn Bennett , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2021;

'Before we’d finished scattering the ashes of trees after the bushfires, a pandemic folded us inside with our grief and confusion and sourdough. Soon enough, poetry started to float out through the windows, across our screens and social media, as if a salve for isolation. Inevitably, when the world is too difficult to describe we turn to poetry, arguably our oldest form of literature, ‘to explain the unexplainable’, as Bruce Pascoe says in Extinction Elegies. Poems speak to us through panic and fences, closed doors, forests, rivers and distanced days. Their atoms lodge somewhere within us and we carry them close, hoping that, in the inferno of loss and uncertainty, the intensity and ambiguity of poetry can salvage something. Whether it’s a memory, a way of undoing the world, the remnants of a life, a new relationship, a forest or community, poems connect us by distilling the personal and universal. So what’s the social impact of poetry in the midst of a pandemic?' (Introduction)

1 San Pedro i "Feathers mark the spot", Tamryn Bennett , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , April no. 7 2020;
1 y separately published work icon Icarus Tamryn Bennett , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2020 16862530 2020 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon Icaros Tamryn Bennett , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2020 14815926 2020 selected work poetry 'ICAROS returns to the shared roots of plant, animal and human existence. From the evolution of a single ancestor some four billion years ago, the poems entangle plant and human experience, song, ceremony, medicine and healing. The poems grow from Bennett’s childhood in a plant nursery as well as experiences of vegetal ceremonies during her time living in Central and South America where botanical knowledge is revered and plants are known the wisest of teachers. Illuminating the poems are artworks by Jacqueline Cavallaro who layers human and non-human connections. Below the surface of bodies, we’re invited into a realm of molecular questions and mark-making that invites new interpretations of word, image and ways of being. The poems of ICAROS are offered as rituals for remembering nature, what we are made of and in turn what makes us.' 

(Publication summary)

1 Marrow / Tuétano i "the long grass sings again", Tamryn Bennett , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: PAN , December no. 14 2018; (p. 80-83)
1 4 y separately published work icon Phosphene Tamryn Bennett , Melbourne : Rabbit Poetry Journal , 2016 10058116 2016 selected work poetry

'The book is inspired by a series of offerings weaving poems and plants that began in

Mexico and took root in Australia...' (Source: Tamryn Bennett website)

1 Tamryn Bennett Reviews Paul Carter Tamryn Bennett , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 49.0 2015;

— Review of Ecstacies and Elegies : Poems Paul Carter , 2013 selected work poetry
1 Maps, Cargo by Bella Li and The Tulip Beds by A. J. Carruthers Tamryn Bennett , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 16 2014;

— Review of Maps, Cargo Bella Li , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Tulip Beds A. J. Carruthers , 2013 selected work poetry
1 Review Short : Valerie Volk’s Passion Play: The Oberammergau Tales Tamryn Bennett , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;

— Review of Passion Play : The Oberammergau Tales Valerie Volk , 2013 single work novel
1 Beneath the Cathedral i "a cold star sinks", Tamryn Bennett , Jackie Cavallaro (illustrator), 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
1 The Sun i "we make ourselves", Tamryn Bennett , Jackie Cavallaro (illustrator), 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
1 Tamryn Bennett Reviews Autoethnographic by Michael Brennan Tamryn Bennett , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 13 2013;

— Review of Autoethnographic Michael Brennan , 2012 selected work poetry
1 Dream Merchants i "We trawl the sunken city,", Tamryn Bennett , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Disappearing 2012;
1 The Finder’s Library i "When we listen we begin to see.", Tamryn Bennett , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Disappearing 2012;
1 Chittagong i "Rusted whales", Tamryn Bennett , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Disappearing 2012;
1 The Kaleidoscope of Visual Poetry : New Approaches to Visual Literacy Tamryn Bennett , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 3 2011; (p. 55-67)
1 This Night is Nowhere and Now i "he says 'wear green, we're leaving,'", Tamryn Bennett , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Nth Degree : New Australian Writing 2010; (p. 121-122)
1 Thoughts On Your leaving i "I kept thinking", Tamryn Bennett , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tide , no. 3 2006; (p. 20-21)
1 Receipts and Postcards for 'S' i "I met her on the edge of Things.", Tamryn Bennett , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tide , no. 3 2006; (p. 19)
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