Michele Fermanis-Winward Michele Fermanis-Winward i(A151188 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Our Most Familiar Landscape. i "We remember its contours", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 67 no. 9 2023; (p. 27)
1 y separately published work icon Aquamarine Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2023 26008422 2023 selected work poetry 'My love for the water of the sea, of river, bay and ocean, from childhood to now, its call is strong and I yearn to be close to the flow of tides. In Aquamarine, I include poems on the tragedy of refugees who came to us by boat seeking refuge. There are poems about convicts and slaves, floods and climate change. It is a collection drawing on my wonder at the mystery of the deep, of myth and folklore and how, from our first cluster of cells, the ocean has shaped the human race. It is also a collection about my relationship with the shoreline, the healing, both physical and spiritual that water offers us.' (Publication summary)
1 The Darkened Cities i "Troy, Carthage, Ypres, Aleppo", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: For Ukraine : By Women of the World 2022; (p. 70)
1 Ukraine and Us i "Our vocabulary expands", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: For Ukraine : By Women of the World 2022; (p. 69)
1 y separately published work icon Symbiotic Web Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 24895964 2022 selected work poetry

'Michele Fermanis-Winward lives close to the summit of the World Heritage Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, on Darug and Gundungurra Land. With a long career as a visual artist, she considers herself an Imagist poet. Through her writing, she rails against injustice and discrimination in all its forms. Michele is passionate in her defence of our natural environment. She celebrates its diversity and decries its destruction.'   (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon These Weighted Months Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 23742178 2022 selected work poetry '‘This suite of poems was written under the constraints of a pandemic, Covid-19, in 2020. It is a chronicle of lockdown, first in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales then during stage four restrictions in Melbourne, Victoria. It is the poetic response of one person, Michele, to the hours, days, nights and months spent mainly confined to one small room, a studio apartment in St Kilda, which she shared with her partner and her assistance dog. The poems evoke life and the lack of it, in local streets and bluestone lanes, and along the shores of Port Phillip Bay. There are stories of people on the margins, financially and mentally. Michele travelled to Melbourne in June to assist her 94-year-old uncle after a catastrophic brain injury. An uncle who was unaware of border closures, restrictions or his own condition as she coaxed him back to health. Michele bears witness to the feelings of millions of Australians during an uncertain time of suffering, of displacement, of boredom and depression, tempered by hope of eventual escape from lockdown and return to the life they knew before the arrival of this deadly virus.’ – Dr Brendan Doyle, poet, editor and translator' 

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1 y separately published work icon A Larrikin in the Blood Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2020 20326619 2020 selected work poetry 'John Avery was aged twenty-four with a wife and young child when he was arrested for stealing a grey mare, his death sentence commuted to life transportation. After twenty years in Van Diemen’s Land he was charged with sheep stealing and sentenced to fourteen years on Sarah Island. From a small Hampshire village in 1750s England to 1870s boom-town Melbourne, here are the stories of six women whose lives were impacted by the choices made by John Avery, my four times great grandfather. This is a family history told in poetic long-form, the bald facts on official registers fleshed out through imagining how I would respond in their place given what choices were open to them. There is Sarah, John’s mother, then his two wives, Jane and Mary Ann, an Irish rebel; his son William’s two wives, Matilda, a Soho child prostitute, and Emily, a runaway. The final story is of William and Matilda’s daughter, Tilly. Through their eyes we see the impact of crime and punishment in England and Ireland and the young colony in Van Diemen’s Land, how some will prosper while others fail. The six women find their own ways to get by.' (Publication summary)
 
1 I Will Protest i "When you take my aged pension", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: I Protest! Poems of Dissent 2020; (p. 114)
1 Among Shadows i "Titania Road winds", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mountain Secrets 2019; (p. 118)
1 y separately published work icon Curdled Milk Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2019 18316501 2019 selected work poetry
1 Animal Attraction i "We bring them home", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Wild 2018; (p. 122)
1 y separately published work icon The Sail Weaver Michele Fermanis-Winward , Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2017 13459075 2017 selected work short story
1 The Word Is Beautiful i "There are words, invisible threads", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 86)
1 I Am More i "I am more", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 85)
1 Wollemi i "Within the blue horizon", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 84)
1 y separately published work icon The Eucalypt Distillery Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2017 12335806 2017 selected work poetry

'Michele Fermanis-Winward lives on the edge of bushland in the upper Blue Mountains of New South Wales, part of the World Heritage National Park. The trees and wildlife surrounding her home are a constant inspiration.' (Publication Summary)
 
1 Land Lines Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: First Refuge : Poems on Social Justice 2016; (p. 65)
1 y separately published work icon Threading Raindrops Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2015 8417226 2015 selected work poetry

'In Threading Raindrops, Michele Fermanis-Winward has fashioned an associative landscape full of the conflicts of the human heart and mind. The reader is buoyed by the honesty and integrity, the gentle ruefulness of this poet’s generous observations. The necklace is a perfect symbol for this collection of clear and lovely poems - the thread on which they’re strung a continuum of the poet’s deep noticing, of bush, garden, ocean, family, drawn inward into deep reverence.’ - Deb Westbury' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon To the Dam Michele Fermanis-Winward , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2014 8756001 2014 selected work poetry
1 Drones i "and as we move apart,", Michele Fermanis-Winward , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 21 December vol. 22 no. 24 2012;
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