Esther Ottaway Esther Ottaway i(A84502 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 ;
Gender: Female
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1 On Whether I Subscribe to My Name i "s gifts me wings: I’m an egret", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , 30 September no. 31 2023;
1 The Autistic Woman’s Self-compassion Blessing i "Lay down the telephone.", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;
1 The Shamed Body Addresses Its Owner i "I did not ask to be given to you", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;
1 The Viola D’amore on Why She Avoids Conversation : Empathy Overarousal in Autism i "Too highly strung, and speech is vellicate:", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;
1 Night Vision : Apology to a Late-diagnosed Daughter : Autism i "for jamming the toothbrush into your mouth while you cried and fought your", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;
1 Neurodiverse i "I, nervous reed,", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;
1 Tasmanian Psalm i "On this beach at the end of the earth", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Forty South Tasmania (Online) 2023;
1 A Series of Mirrors : Esther Ottaway Reviews ‘Who Comes Calling?’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;
— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry 'Who Comes Calling? is Miriam Wei Wei Lo’s second collection, described by Lo as “the work of thirty years” spanning “a prolonged child-rearing stretch when my poetry practice was the five minutes I had to spare between folding the laundry and falling asleep.” In the poem ‘Ars Poetica’, Lo reminds us that “Without the woman at the kitchen sink, / nothing is possible”, and exhorts us, “(For goodness sake, pick up a teatowel, start drying!)” Lo captures the twin pull of these competing roles – caring and artistic practice – in the lives of women, and the dispiriting voice of its economic rationalism, in the eponymous poem ‘Who Comes Calling?’' 

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1 Van Gogh’s Sunflowers i "I’d seen them for decades, on postcards, on tea towels", Esther Ottaway , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 Reading Your Poems about Your Dead Son, Quickly i "I am reading your words", Esther Ottaway , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 1 y separately published work icon She Doesn't Seem Autistic Esther Ottaway , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2023 26023283 2023 selected work poetry 'With her characteristic heart and power, the winner of the Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry turns her attention inward in this new poetry collection, creatively illuminating her own hidden autism and that of girls and women, most of whom are misdiagnosed and unsupported in a medical system designed for boys. Every page will surprise and move you.' (Publication summary)
1 Yes i "Listen as the doctor tells us we are not autistic", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Science Write Now , no. 8 2023;
1 How Are You? (iv) i "People say fine, busy, tired,", Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Science Write Now , no. 8 2023;
1 After Writing a Book on Female Autism, I Decide to Bury It i "Go on with that public Esther, curated pretense:", Esther Ottaway , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 166 2022; (p. 76) Best of Australian Poems 2023 2023; (p. 2-3)
1 Joy to My World i "here is the pleasure kitty-cat warm", Kerri Shying , Esther Ottaway , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 Female Autism Diagnostic Journey i "draw attention", Esther Ottaway , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 Lost Women Threnody i "generation grown", Esther Ottaway , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 And Night By Day i "The magma field was inhospitable, stark.", Esther Ottaway , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 Girl Brains Mean Nothing i "at once private", Esther Ottaway , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 y separately published work icon Intimate, Low-voiced, Delicate Things Esther Ottaway , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2021 22960413 2021 selected work poetry

'From the award-winning author of Blood Universe - poems on pregnancy comes a full-length collection of new poetry: powerful, poignant meditations on family and its origins, parenthood, love and the loss of love. Includes poems shortlisted for the Montreal International and Bridport Prizes.' (Publication summary)
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