Elizabeth Lawson Elizabeth Lawson i(A24865 works by)
Also writes as: Elizabeth Marsh
Born: Established: 1940 Campbelltown, Campbelltown (NSW) area, MacArthur area (Camden - Campbelltown), Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Emerald Grass Parrots i "There's an art in looking at air", Elizabeth Lawson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2015; (p. 52)
1 2 y separately published work icon Penelope’s Chairs Elizabeth Lawson , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2014 8703559 2014 selected work poetry

'Elizabeth Lawson has been an abiding and important presence in Australian Literature, particularly Australian Women's Literature, for many years. This collection makes available, for the first time, a representative and thematically diverse selection of her highly crafted, linguistically playful, witty and richly meditative verse. It is a poetry of wide embrace: flowers, grasses, birds, reptiles, and mammals both of land and sea all find place and voice here. But not all such poems can be only celebratory: the connection is fragile, the fragility haunts, and we are often culpable. Time and Love are governing principles too: places travelled to and through, lived and lived-in; people once-lost but always loved, people loved now and always. Many of these poems, rich in reference and allusion, reveal the poet's love of literature, art, and music; all reveal the poet's love of language and its possibilities, from the quirky to the caustic to the profound.' (Publication summary)

1 Reading for Life i "Mornings over coffee and delectable Whisk & Pin", Elizabeth Lawson , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 4 2014; (p. 74-75)
1 The Fifth Parallel i "Four parallels: Molonglo's powered flow;", Elizabeth Lawson , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 72 no. 1 2013; (p. 140)
1 No Other Compass i "Her studio is kids, dogs, brushes, earth and light,", Elizabeth Lawson , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poems 2013 : Volume of the Australian Poetry Members Anthology 2013; (p. 9)
1 Late Reader 1898-1997 i "They are all gone into the world of night,", Elizabeth Lawson , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Now You Shall Know : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2013 2013; (p. 134-136)
1 Donkey Orchids i "Donkey orchids, are they? Gang-gang wise", Elizabeth Lawson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 70 no. 2 2011; (p. 115)
1 The Past Is in Scotland Elizabeth Lawson , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 308 2009; (p. 4)
Responding to Christina Hills' review of Peter Goldworthy's Everything I Knew, Elizabeth Lawson notes links in Goldsworthy's writing to John Shaw Neilson and Robert Burns.
1 From the Archive : 2008 To Queen Elizabeth II i "Back then you came to open this or that, huge", Elizabeth Lawson , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Capital Letters : ACT Writers Centre Poets' Lunch, 2008 2008; (p. 17)
1 From the Archive : 1828 To Sarah, Wife of Joshua Moore, Canberra's First Settler i "Our Sarah Dear, Overjoyed to hear all's well, and baby too,", Elizabeth Lawson , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Capital Letters : ACT Writers Centre Poets' Lunch, 2008 2008; (p. 17)
1 On the Undoing of Buttons i "But no, I mean button-heads", Elizabeth Lawson , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 3 2008; (p. 194) The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008; (p. 80-81)
1 Chirpy Poem i "I offer in a reckless moment", Elizabeth Lawson , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blast , no. 8 (New series) 2008; (p. 28-29)
1 Namadgi : Oils and Watercolours on a Ground i "Snow-gum miles, afternoon flapping evening", Elizabeth Lawson , 2007-2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 66-67 no. 4-1 2007-2008; (p. 129-131)
1 Epistle to a Thief i "Dear Thief, this much too civil request", Elizabeth Lawson , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 July 2007; (p. 12)
1 Potterer Tells It to the Owners i "Potterer, our coin-spinner of the smirk", Elizabeth Lawson , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 May 2007; (p. 19) Blast , no. 6 (New series) 2007; (p. 24-25)
1 From : Air and Water (a work-in-progress) i "Hovering fog covers the", Elizabeth Lawson , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blast , no. 4 (New series) 2006; (p. 26)
1 Poems for a Mother Elizabeth Lawson , 2005 single work poetry
1 Blue Poles Elizabeth Lawson , 2005 single work poetry
1 Untitled Elizabeth Lawson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Art Monthly Australia , November no. 175 2004; (p. 27-28)

— Review of Birds : Poems Judith Wright , 1962 selected work poetry
1 Excavating a Bonanza : Sarah Campion Elizabeth Lawson , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 21 no. 3 2004; (p. 350-361)
Sarah Campion, an ardent traveller, spent several months in Sydney and in North Queensland in 1939. Many of her experiences and observations in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are reflected in her novels. Aiming 'to set a shaky biographical record as straight as possible', Lawson presents an overview of Campion's life, travels and forming influences. Her findings are based on her own research as well as on personal interviews with the author in New Zealand and on 'life chronologies' Campion sent her before her death. Discussing Campion's fiction, Lawson focuses on the writer's 'Australian' novels : the Burdekin trilogy. She argues that the trilogy makes up a 'significant Australian classic', and that Dr. Golightly is 'a masterpiece of crime fiction'. 'As soon as the present long drought in scholarly and heritage publishing breaks, all those who care for literature should move to bring Campion's exhilarating fiction - all lost works of excellence - back to the lives of Australian readers' (360).
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