Elaine Barker Elaine Barker i(A25642 works by) (a.k.a. Elaine M. Barker)
Born: Established: 1933 Waikerie, Loxton - Waikerie area, Riverlands, Murray - Mallee area, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Nails i "The stone column that’s become your spine", Elaine Barker , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mimesis : Friendly Street Poets 48 2024; (p. 18)
1 The Russet Room i "Often she would stay up late to keep", Elaine Barker , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mimesis : Friendly Street Poets 48 2024; (p. 17)
1 In Worrying Times i "Here they are, the children from next door.", Elaine Barker , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mimesis : Friendly Street Poets 48 2024; (p. 16)
1 Long Weekend i "he deciphered the road's curve", Elaine Barker , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , June vol. 30 no. 9 2023; (p. 14)
1 Tearaway i "He arrived hugger-mugger into life", Elaine Barker , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , May vol. 30 no. 8 2023; (p. 8)
1 In Summer's Heat i "Who has taken up this azure veil,", Elaine Barker , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mountain Secrets 2019; (p. 175)
1 y separately published work icon See My Feathered Fingers Elaine Barker , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2019 17053228 2019 selected work poetry

''Elaine Barker analyses the natural world, the home and places beyond; not with the eye of the detached onlooker but compassionately inhabiting the minds of fellow travellers, from the tough tattooed man to the accident victim, from a baby in a shawl to a merry cemetery. They celebrate the commonplace - not the pots and pans of life - but precise moments like a spider's web glinting threads strung from its bridge line / each silk strand spun with dewdrops / each glistening sharp and fine. An entire world held within a single feather. Sparrows which casually flit / in and out of life; snatches of memory or loss of memory, past and present fused into exquisitely discrete moments, pickpocketing memories not mere scraps of existence. Worlds and histories evoked by a brooch, a brass button or a mended vase; mere objects until they intersect with humanity. These poems sparkle like the sun through peppertrees glinting through lacy foliage...' - Rob Walker'   (Publication summary)
1 See My Feathered Fingers i "Someone said, 'If my body were a temple'", Elaine Barker , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Wild 2018; (p. 18)
1 A Snatch of Memory i "She was in her eighties then. And I was thirteen.", Elaine Barker , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 1 July vol. 28 no. 13 2018;
1 Birch Broom i "A broom was sweeping steadily back", Elaine Barker , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 1 July vol. 28 no. 13 2018;
1 Patchwork Blanket i "You've walked away from your knitted blanket", Elaine Barker , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 1 July vol. 28 no. 13 2018;
1 The Finger : War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam i "On the second floor the photos arc", Elaine Barker , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 62 no. 2 2017; (p. 204)
1 Chloe Elaine Barker , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: First Refuge : Poems on Social Justice 2016; (p. 78)
1 Kath i "A glass, she repeated with a hint of a smile", Elaine Barker , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , February vol. 24 no. 1 2016;
1 Skirmish i "Listen to the Surge", Elaine Barker , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , May vol. 24 no. 3 2016; (p. 12)
1 Incentives i "Magpies are meeting in Jeffcott Street", Elaine Barker , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , May-June vol. 23 no. 4 2015; (p. 6)
1 Apparition i "We children are peering through wooden slats", Elaine Barker , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , October vol. 23 no. 8 2015; (p. 2)
1 Taking Them In Elaine Barker , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: When ANZAC Day Comes Around : 100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project 2015;
1 In the Ukraine i "On TV news last night", Elaine Barker , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , September vol. 22 no. 8 2014; (p. 14)
1 The Sabots of M. Gauguin i "I would have thought that your Tahiti", Elaine Barker , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , August vol. 21 no. 6 2013; (p. 7)
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