Dimitra Harvey Dimitra Harvey i(A147028 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Giants i "The dark back slipped through the surf and slapped down detonating", Dimitra Harvey , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
Author's note: for Tim
1 Leeches i "After scudding rain, the grass gushing, I find them beached", Dimitra Harvey , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 The Valley Dimitra Harvey. i "On a plate beside my pillow — the fig", Dimitra Harvey , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 Cicadas Dimitra Harvey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 31)
1 Cooks River Canal - Wangal Country, 1990s Dimitra Harvey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anabranch : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 2022;
1 The Wonderment of the Natural World : Dimitra Harvey Launches ‘What’s Left’ by Steve Armstrong’ Dimitra Harvey , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 31 2021;

— Review of What's Left Steve Armstrong , 2021 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon A Fistful of Hail Dimitra Harvey , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2018 13999847 2018 selected work poetry

'‘Dimitra Harvey's poems stand out for their arresting images and lines, for the precision with which they gather often raw, conflicting moments of perception. Harvey's poems inhabit dry, scarred, searing places, often bristling with menace, and speak them with the utmost eloquence and faithfulness to detail. At times exquisitely beautiful, at times a powerful register of human violence, A Fistful of Hail offers a wise and thoughtful collection of works to be read and reread.’—Peter Boyle

''I couldn’t resist Dimitra Harvey’s evocatively brocaded poem about yellow-tailed black cockatoos, Calyptorhynchus funereus. Astute observation is at the heart of this poem, the poet’s careful pinpointing of particulars is what makes it so memorable, but the poem is so much more than just descriptive, it evokes many tones of mood and it richly maps the birds to landscape, weather and to folklore ... What I enjoyed most is the way the birds intensely haunt the imagination of the speaker … We can see in Dimitra Harvey’s poem how the poetic imagination depends upon emotion, so that by the end, the speaker’s deep connection to the birds allows for an expansion and activation of knowledge.' Judith Beveridge, Cordite.'(Publication summary)

1 3 y separately published work icon DeciBels Series 3 Michelle Cahill (editor), Dimitra Harvey (editor), 2018 Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2018 13999565 2018 series - publisher poetry
1 These Hills i "that enclose my days, open up ahead, like a book.", Dimitra Harvey , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 Dimitra Harvey Reviews Fragments by Antigone Kefala Dimitra Harvey , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 20 2017;

— Review of Fragments Antigone Kefala , 2016 selected work poetry

'Stark, radiant imagery; lean punctuation; the slightly disorienting effect of the syntax; an imaginative vision of sensuous waking life enmeshed in subterranean realms of memory and dream, struck me on my first encounter with Australian poet Antigone Kefala’s work: an English-Greek bilingual edition I stumbled across several years ago containing selections from each of her then published collections, The Alien (1973), Thirsty Weather (1978), European Notebook (1988), and Absence(1992). Fragments (2016) represents Kefala’s first collection of new poems in more than twenty years. Like those earlier collections, Fragments effects Banksy’s famous maxim, that ‘art should…disturb the comfortable’.' (Introduction)

1 Acrocorinth i "Time has scalloped and tightly crimped", Dimitra Harvey , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Philament , December no. 22 2016; (p. 115-118) The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 82-83)
1 Dimitra Harvey Reviews Kin by Anne Elvey Dimitra Harvey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;

— Review of Kin Anne Elvey , 2014 selected work poetry
1 Dimitra Harvey Reviews Breaking New Sky by Ouyang Yu Dimitra Harvey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 17 2015;

— Review of Breaking New Sky : Contemporary Poetry from China Yu Ouyang (translator), 2013 selected work poetry
1 Crow Dimitra Harvey , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Stars Like Sand : Australian Speculative Poetry 2014; (p. 53-54)
1 Sun i "It’s dusk, and I’m listening to an old", Dimitra Harvey , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , May no. 15 2014;
1 Station i "After I’ve spent the night being someone else, and going home –", Dimitra Harvey , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , May no. 15 2014;
1 Thief i "I hear you in the stillest hour of the night.", Dimitra Harvey , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Metabolism 2012; (p. 30)
1 At the Market i "Maybe she's made a shelter from mulga branches and spinifex", Dimitra Harvey , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 71 no. 3 2012; (p. 90-91)
1 Father i "My father knew stone. He'd sit cross-legged", Dimitra Harvey , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 71 no. 3 2012; (p. 89)
1 Sport i "Two halters of rope around your neck, and two bodies jammed hard", Dimitra Harvey , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 3 2011; (p. 98)
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