Penelope Layland Penelope Layland i(A31595 works by)
Born: Established: 1962 Liverpool, Liverpool area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Infanta i "One is only ever handed what can be handled, my mother says", Penelope Layland , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 10 2023; (p. 46)
1 y separately published work icon The Book of Birds Penelope Layland (editor), Lesley Lebkowicz (editor), Fenja T. Ringl (illustrator), Kambah : Recent Work Press , 2023 27278653 2023 anthology poetry

'The poems collected in The Book of Birds-the work of a wide range of contemporary Australian poets-do more than describe. They invoke the many meanings of birds in our lives and imaginations.'  (Publication summary)
1 Wordle i "Begin badly. Bring every thing forth— alive, dying:", Penelope Layland , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
1 1 y separately published work icon Beloved Penelope Layland , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2022 23667987 2022 selected work poetry

'In 1778, Dorothy Wordsworth’s mother died, and the six-year-old Dorothy was sent to live with extended family. She never returned to the family home, and it was not until adolescence that Dorothy became reacquainted with her brother William. The two formed an intense and passionate emotional bond. By 1794 they were living together from that time would rarely be physically separated for more than a few weeks at a time, for the rest of their lives.

'Written in the voice of Dorothy, Beloved traces the progression of their relationship, from the ecstatic infatuation of youth onwards, drawing upon Dorothy’s diaries and letters as well as the recollections of friends and family members and literary and biographical scholarship.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Pomegranate, Four Ways i "The seeds snick free and freely fall", Penelope Layland , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 8)
1 Life with Headphones i "I walk with red headphones, buffered against strict frost. A Nocturne strokes my stride", Penelope Layland , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 7)
1 The Great Rooted Bed i "I am fallow.", Penelope Layland , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
1 After Donating Blood i "I ignore the caution against strenuous exercise,", Penelope Layland , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , March no. 8 2021;
1 Every Single Piece of Plastic Ever Made Still Exists, Scientists Say i "A grain in the gut of an albacore or wrass or drummer, or glittering like", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020; (p. 116)
1 Grasmere, 1802 i "A robin chased a scarlet butterfly—", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 8 no. 2 2020; (p. 49-50)
1 y separately published work icon Nigh Penelope Layland , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2020 20911182 2020 selected work poetry

'From the author of the award-winning Things I’ve thought to tell you since I saw you last comes a new collection of poems steeped in a sense of dark foreboding. Jumping from the global to the everyday, many of the poems in Nigh chime with the mood that all is not right with the world. Even in the seemingly mundane, or overtly beautiful, Layland finds some uncomfortable truths waiting to be unpicked. Nigh displays the confidence of a poet looking and thinking deeply about the world and offering it up in language as crisp as it is beguiling.'

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1 Somnia i "Once I slept meagerly,", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;
1 Blood Sport i "‘Do you even like roses?’", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;
1 Ruin Porn i "Walls skinned by spalling,", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;
1 Tempest Prognosticator i "The storm glass agrees", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 239 2020; (p. 69)
1 Devonian i "In the hours of the tide’s chill retreat", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 239 2020; (p. 68)
1 The Succession of Forest Trees i "April days become stretched,", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 70)
1 Quaking Aspens, Utah i "Whispers lap, layered as a waterfall", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , March vol. 7 no. 1 2020;
1 Communion i "Every instant, I just miss. The one who left the sachet twist at my café", Penelope Layland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , March no. 6 2020;
1 Drowned Town i "In the sixth year of dry", Penelope Layland , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019;
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