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E. A. Gleeson, a poet and teacher, has won minor prizes in the Henry Kendall Poetry Awards. Gleeson has lived in Tonga as an Australian Volunteer International. In 2008 she was living in Ballarat and working as a funeral director.
A Short Time to Livei
"I guess I'd write faster is what IsaacAsimov said when asked",
2008single work poetry — Appears in:
Page Seventeen,vol.
6no.
2008;(p. 46)
yIn Between the DancingCarindale:Interactive Publications,2008Z15744632008selected work poetry
'Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award. An impressive first poetry collection that traverses time and place with ease. Acute in her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women as the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. ‘In the poems of Anne Gleeson, memory is transformed into memorable speech. With wit and passion, skill and fellow feeling, the fragmentations of the past are made whole through a re-imagining as poetry. In Between the Dancing is the premier of a new poet, a first book that is as premier as it is memorable.’ – Paul Kane, Antipodes'