Isabella G. Mead Isabella G. Mead i(A135238 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Verge 2024 Click J. Taylor Bell (editor), Julia Faragher (editor), Isabella G. Mead (editor), Anna Pane (editor), Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2024 28241456 2024 anthology poetry short story

'A still moment captured by a camera's shutter. The rapid fire of the mouse in a tight League of Legends match. The protracted sound of a door closing with finality.

'In the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, twenty-six writers explore consonance and assonance that rattle like a chattering jaw, narratives composed of hyperlinked rabbit-holing, and stories that tick with explosive anticipation. Some will make you laugh, others will make you cry, all will feature writing which clicks.

'In this collection spanning fiction, nonfiction, poetry and the experimental, Australian writers from Monash University and beyond share every class of bric-a-brac, including their most extreme online poems, the stories that keep them up at night, and assembled fragments falling into place.' (Publication summary)

1 Reflections on a Waiting Room Lithograph i "No one knows exactly how paracetamol works:", Isabella G. Mead , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 13 May no. 112 2024;
1 1 y separately published work icon The Infant Vine Isabella G. Mead , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2024 28052049 2024 selected work poetry 'Lyrical and narrative-driven, with playful and fantastical elements woven throughout, the poems in The Infant Vine reflect on how ordinary moments become charged with significance and strangeness when disaster strikes. Such moments make imaginary worlds possible: sleep deprivation transfigures a new mother into a leafy sea dragon; a novel virus gives women the power to reproduce via parthenogenesis like the eponymous bonnethead shark. Themes of transformation, metamorphosis and preservation a of life, of memory and the environment a permeate this collection, which explores caregiving and creativity in the context of global crises.' 

(Publication summary)

1 I Cutlass Spent Days With an X i "Question: What does every ancient reef forget?", Isabella G. Mead , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
1 Ode to a BabyCentre Forum i "As in the inner workings of a hive, each is giving:", Isabella G. Mead , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 74-75)
1 Visions i "It begins with one tau emerald, dead", Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , June vol. 10 no. 1 2023;
1 Fool at Perigee Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 43 2023;
1 Two Cities Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry of Home : The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology 2023;
1 The Transfer Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry of Home : The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology 2023;
1 Screensaver i "My mother’s vials are small, very neat. The ants", Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 20 2023;
1 Megafauna i "Range the pages, large as houses. A scale for each", Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 68 no. 1 2023; (p. 62-63)
1 The Salience Network [Street Scenes, Heidelberg] i "We are walking daily now. We are stepping out at the inter-", Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 109 2023;
1 Night Notes i "When C. is born, I use my Notes app to tap out loosely twined drafts. A", Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 167 2023; (p. 17)
1 The Human Body i "The river outgrows its bank like a child her shoes: incremental", Isabella G. Mead , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 167 2023; (p. 16)
1 On Googling Saint Olivia Palermo [Images] i "what has she done", Isabella G. Mead , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 38-39)
1 Personal Slalom i "My daughter is born in February", Isabella G. Mead , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , September vol. 81 no. 3 2022; (p. 65)
1 The Green Wedge i "I walk the river's slow edge", Isabella G. Mead , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 166 2022; (p. 26)
1 Parturition Chairs I-V Isabella G. Mead , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island Online - 2021 2021;
1 The Cholmondeley Ladies i "Sisters do not sit like this", Isabella G. Mead , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 76-77)
1 The Bee i "did it hurt when you discovered the bee had travelled", Isabella G. Mead , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 38 2017; (p. 22-23)
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