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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2019 shortlisted Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest as 'The Antagonist's Care Pack'.
- 2012 shortlisted The Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize
Awards for Works
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Bees Do Bother
Bees Do Bother : An Antagonist's Carepack
Newtown
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Vagabond Press
,
2021
21967750
2021
selected work
poetry
'Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Carepack takes its cue from Leonardo da Vinci’s observation that the bee does not simply collect and use but digests and transforms. It considers firstly, how our understanding of social interactions might borrow from those of the more-thanhuman and secondly, that we need to reconceptualise existence as closely connected to the more-than-human. As Maurice Maeterlinck noted as far back as 1901, “If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.” As its title suggests, the collection plays upon the dual meaning of bothering as an act of care as much as an act of disturbance. The central question driving Bees Do Bother is: how might we creatively draw together these strands of care and activism? Taking a specifically feminist approach, the poetry collection considers how experiences of intimacy and labour have been shaped by cultural hierarchies and divisions around gender, race, capital, and nation. It explores how poetry might highlight existing social and ecological vulnerability and unsettle prescribed roles. In imaginatively teasing out and beginning the work of transforming relations, how might poetry lead to more sustainable forms of belonging and solidarity?' (Publication summary)
- 2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- 2019 shortlisted Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest as 'The Antagonist's Care Pack'.
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The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon
Newtown
:
Vagabond Press
,
2014
8324193
2014
selected work
poetry
'THE COMPLETE POCKETBOOK OF SWOON is a convenient portable companion for the use and amusement of today's Youth. Considering the relationship between individual desire and public convenience, it offers a small compass on the cultural navigation of feelings. Learn about the fabrication of attraction, the lesser or secret theatres of life inside life, and how to read Love variously and proportionately. Kept handy, this volume provides a ready source of occasional pleasure and instruction.' (Publication summary)
- 2015 commended Anne Elder Award
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Stressing the Modern : Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry
Cambridge
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Salt Publishing
,
2007
Z1442847
2007
selected work
criticism
'Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry is the first major study of modern Australian women's poetry. As it demonstrates, the first part of the twentieth century was a prolific period for women poets. Their work challenged previously given roles of gender and negotiated a rapidly changing social climate. Ausralia became an independent nation in 1901. By 1903, it 'was the only country where white women could both vote and stand for national parliament'. Poetry written between 1900 and 1940 reflected the suffrage movement, as well as the effects of Federation, World War I, increasing industrialisation and, emergent discourses of sexology and psychology. New subject formations were taking place around gender, race and nationalism. Women writers would also move between contrasting sensibilities and styles.'
Source: Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry, p.3.
- 2009 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Walter McRae Russell Award
- 2008 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Literary Scholarship
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