Ella O'Keefe Ella O'Keefe i(A135887 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Swathes of It Ella O'Keefe , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2023 2023; (p. 146)
1 Sunlight and Wind Are Free Ella O'Keefe , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Line in the Sand 2023;
1 Double Distance i "doped up on hills", Ella O'Keefe , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 June no. 105 2022;
1 Scratchcard i "whole corners for televisions", Ella O'Keefe , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 2 2021-2022; (p. 49-52)
1 For the Doffettes i "reams and spools endlessly", Ella O'Keefe , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 146-147)
1 Rhododododendron i "rhodododo-doubtful", Ella O'Keefe , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 144-145)
1 y separately published work icon Slowlier Ella O'Keefe , Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2021 20959259 2021 selected work poetry

'Held under an incorrect adverb, the slowness of this book is expressed as intransigent buffering and refusal of optimisation. A syrupy coherence runs through these poems; passing thoughts and bits of language stick to their surfaces. The book is shaped by a stubborn commitment to inclusive imprecision which seeks companionship with error and with the grit and offcuts we collect in the course of living.

'Objects of the industrial world are beheld in their strangeness and excess. An awareness of the hands, machines and historic forces that produce our material realities directs these poems, along with the attempt to understand that objects arrive with afterlives and consequences.

'Archive-shuffling was a useful model for writing, one that was connected to a desire to amplify minor histories and attend to the technologies of connection that wire, thread and beam us into the present. Voices drop out, a phrase is misremembered, the test pattern is the viewing event. If there’s static on the line it’s a happy bit of chance, an instructive interruption.

'A go-slow is a pointed withdrawal of effort, as well as a chance to cultivate pleasure in slackness. Does a state of continued slowness become atrophy? Perhaps this explains the instances of breakage and depletion. The poems in Slowlier are propelled by the oscillation between an acquiescence which can only wryly index decline, and the desire to use the poem to scaffold and energise activities that kick against the logic of inevitability.

'–Ella O'Keefe'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Absolute Shrew i "from inside the workforce", Ella O'Keefe , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 39 no. 4 2020; (p. 61)
1 Invisible Hostile Employee i "instance as explanation", Ella O'Keefe , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 39 no. 4 2020; (p. 11)
1 Warped up Lamplight i "what to put in the folded mural", Ella O'Keefe , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 78 no. 3 2018; (p. 154-157)
1 Fodder i "hitchcocked glass baubles", Ella O'Keefe , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 Interview with Sidney Nolan Ella O'Keefe (editor), Hazel de Berg (interviewer), 2017 single work interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March vol. 57 no. 1 2017;
'Hazel de Berg’s recordings take place in the homes or work spaces of the subjects rather than a recording studio. This allows something of these places into the recording whether birdsong, traffic or an r&b song playing in the background. In the recordings, de Berg remains enigmatic, the ghostly presence operating the machine.' (Introduction)
1 Letter from the Swimming Pool Ella O'Keefe , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2016 2016; (p. 136-137) Active Aesthetics : Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
1 Alkaway Ella O'Keefe , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 222 2016; (p. 25) Active Aesthetics : Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016; Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 142-143)
1 Culture Afloat i "this torch requires an evaluation", Ella O'Keefe , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 53.0 2016;
1 Bright Islands i "vitrine containing sand, stone, paper", Leah Muddle , Ella O'Keefe , Emily Stewart , Sian Vate , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 106-108)
1 On the Occasion of Gig Ryan’s Sixtieth Birthday : A Sapphic Collaboration i "That it's pure, when it comes from their mouth, well I'd", Michael Farrell , Yu Ouyang , Louis Armand , Bonny Cassidy , Kate Lilley , John Hand , Toby Fitch , Tracy Ryan , John Kinsella , Ella O'Keefe , Kate Fagan , Aden Rolfe , Melinda Bufton , Lisa Gorton , Liam Ferney , Ann Vickery , Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng , Corey Wakeling (editor), 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2016; Overland , Summer no. 225 2016; (p. 58)
2 y separately published work icon Dorothy Hewett Interviewed by Hazel de Berg Hazel de Berg (interviewer), Z1002197 1973 single work interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 50.0 2015;
Hewett speaks of her childhood on a farm in Western Australia; her desire to write poetry; she speaks about the Ern Malley poems; about her narrative style of writing poems; the evolution in her style of writing; her literary output; her short stories, novels and plays; she recalls the efforts put into writing her first play; she speaks of her marriage and political beliefs.
1 1 y separately published work icon Rhinestone Ella O'Keefe , Australia : Stale Objects , 2015 9135904 2015 selected work poetry
1 Hazel de Berg and Ella O'Keefe Interview with John Forbes Hazel de Berg (interviewer), Ella O'Keefe (interviewer), 2015 single work interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;

Recorded on 19 August 1980 by Hazel de Berg.

2015 edit by Ella O’Keefe

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