Claire Nashar Claire Nashar i(A151000 works by)
Born: Established: 1990 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 My Kitchen Counter Said i "My kitchen counter said", Claire Nashar , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 [From] Lake Claire Nashar , 2017 single work poetry extract
— Appears in: 20 Poets : Selected Poems, Cordite Books Series 1 & 2 2017; (p. 62-65)
1 Story i "I’m afraid there’re no surprises in this one, you’ve almost certainly heard", Claire Nashar , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 225 2016; (p. 54)
1 4 y separately published work icon Lake Claire Nashar , Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2016 10421426 2016 selected work poetry

'Dear reader,

'The poems that follow are a few stories. At their most straightforward, they are the stories of a day in the life of my family – when we buried someone we love. Trying to tell these stories meaningfully in a book has been hard. It has seemed important and respectful to undo them into others, bigger and deeper than ours. The lake that delimits the site of this book, Tuggerah Lake, is located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Long before us and long after us the area is home to the Darkinjung, Awabakal and Kuringgai peoples. Because of its interest in the dead things of Tuggerah Lake, I initially called this collection a ‘necro-geography.’ I have since read Joyelle McSweeney’s ‘What is the Necropastoral?’, which says:

'The Necropastoral is a strange meetingplace for the poet and death, or for the dead to meet the dead, or for the seemingly singular-bodied human to be revealed as part of an inhuman multiple body.

and

'Necropastoral is a political-aesthetic zone in which the fact of mankind’s depredations cannot be separated from an experience of “nature” which is poisoned, mutated, aberrant, spectacular, full of ill effects and affects.

'The poems in this book do not always start and end on discrete pages, and none have titles, although sometimes the index points a way. Muddle-headed pronouns, tenses and other grammatical disagreements reflect the porousness of subjecthood, action and time. Such disagree-ments are always fluoresced by subjects like love, death and life. Where there is blank space in these poems, as with most blank things, it is not empty. '

–Claire Nashar (Publication summary)

1 Prologue to A Marsupial Dream Opera i "Setting: Australia", Claire Nashar , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Exostale Chrestomathy 2016;
2 Une Fois Nés i "Une fois nés", Erin Mouré , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 50.0 2015;

— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 50.0 2015;
1 In Theory i "an Australian town is only as big", Claire Nashar , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 46.1 2014;
1 Lost i "and after dark", Claire Nashar , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 46.1 2014; Australian Poetry Anthology 2018; (p. 55)
1 Around Australia [Destination: Melbourne] i "millions and millions of old ladies", Claire Nashar , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 46.1 2014;
1 Melbourne Sonnets Claire Nashar , 2014 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 46.1 2014;
1 Biography of Elvis i "They say Elvis could shoot a hoop from twelve metres out.", Claire Nashar , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
1 'As the New / Gets Newer' : Rethinking the Possibilities of a New Australian Lyric Claire Nashar , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 2 2013; (p. 153-164)
1 Claire Nashar Reviews Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Claire Nashar , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 2 2013;

— Review of Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry
1 Art, Memory & Dreams Claire Nashar , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June no. 8 2013;

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry
1 At the Copa, Copacabana i "they, you, we, she, he, it, you and i", Claire Nashar , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2013 2013; (p. 227)
1 Cento i "So then the Librarian said:", Claire Nashar , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 209 2012; (p. 27)
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