Lesley Synge Lesley Synge i(A98503 works by) (birth name: Lesley Elizabeth Clare Wenck)
Also writes as: Lesley Singh
Born: Established: Gladstone, Gladstone area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Irish ; German ; English
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1 She Is i "Anne Wallace paints herself.", Lesley Synge , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 19 2022;
1 Suzie, One Summer i "It’s New Year’s Day, and Suzie and me", Lesley Synge , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 19 2022;
1 Fortunato Stablum : the Fortunes of an Italian Mining Labourer and the Puzzles of Oral History Lesley Synge , 2021 single work biography
— Appears in: Queensland History Journal , May vol. 24 no. 9 2021;
'Fortunato Stablum could not have been a happy man as he left the Broken Hill courthouse on the afternoon of 19th July 1913.' (Introduction)
1 The Silk Roads i "It’s too late to travel them now", Lesley Synge , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , March no. 6 2020;
1 A Measured Monograph on an Artful Modernist Lesley Synge , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 29 no. 1 2019; (p. 68-73)

— Review of The Fiction of Thea Astley Susan Sheridan , 2016 multi chapter work criticism
1 Right to March Stories by Women Lesley Synge , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Bjelke Blues : Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland 1968-1987 2019; (p. 115-118)
1 The Ukrainian and the Bad Bad Russians i "She was living in Donetsk when Russia annexed Crimea", Lesley Synge , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 38 no. 2 2019; (p. 73)
1 124-LUV i "Don't even think about spending more than two seconds", Lesley Synge , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019; (p. 110-111)
1 y separately published work icon Signora Bella's Grand Tour Lesley Synge , West End : Zing Stories , 2019 16935255 2019 single work novel

'An Australian woman spends two months in Italy in the summer of 2017. As she wends her way to a literary conference in Ravello where will will speak about Basho, she records the joys and foibles of Bella Italia - the characters she meets, the food she enjoys and the art she sees. The haiku she writes on return pay tribute to her poetic companion on her travels - Basho. From Sicily in the south to Monte Rossa in the north, the magnificent delights of Italy unfold, even though the tour is a humble one and not grand at all.'   (Publication summary)

1 Autobiography of an Australian Working Man : Much More Than a Private Hobby Lesley Synge , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Queensland History Journal , February vol. 23 no. 12 2019; (p. 816-831)

'In the last decade of his long life, Wal Stubbings (1913-2014), retired Water side worker from the port of Brisbane, occupied himself with his life story. As a worker, and a militant one, he had already penned a number of short articles for his union, the Waterside Workers Federation (WWF, later the Maritime Union of Australia) and for the Communist Party of Australia (CPA, dissolved in 1991), and letters to the Courier-Mail. When asked to contribute to the Stubbings family history being compiled by a cousin in Melbourne, his taste for memoir was whetted and he continued on after the family history was published. Wal Stubbings knew that he had lived as a player in the political history of Australia and he wanted an autobiography that included his all-important family and his life as a militant worker.' (Introduction)
 

1 The Controversy i "Two men keep the packhorse track", Lesley Synge , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 4 2018;

Epigraph:

… what we have loved

Others will love, and we will teach them how.

William Wordsworth, The Prelude xiv

1 Chai Wallah i "Cinnamon and cloves", Lesley Synge , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 36 no. 2 2017; (p. 5)
1 2 y separately published work icon Wharfie Wal Stubbings , Lesley Synge , West End : Zing Stories , 2017 11424771 2017 single work autobiography

'Wal Stubbings (1913-2014) was an Australian waterside worker for 40 years. Militant workers like him were demonised and accused of wrecking the country. So what was it like to be a wharfie? Especially one who visited the USSR, was involved in street marches, and was under ASIO surveillance yet survived with all his mental facilities intact to the ripe old age of 101? This is one man's journey through a tumultuous century.' (Publication summary)

1 I Call Myself an Earth Artist Lesley Synge , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 6 2016;
1 Broken Heart i "he has stopped sending texts", Lesley Synge , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , October vol. 24 no. 8 2016; (p. 2)
1 Chinese Puzzle in Seven Pieces Lesley Synge , 2016 single work prose
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 42 no. 1 2016; (p. 31-44) Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , February vol. 4 no. 1 2017;
1 Invocation i "o heart", Lesley Synge , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , September vol. 24 no. 7 2016;
1 Punting in Paradise Lesley Synge , 2015 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 8 no. 1 2015;
1 Songs of Compulsion Lesley Synge , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Women’s Book Review , vol. 27 no. 1 / 2 2015-2016; (p. 40-45)
'On this short story collection’s release in August 2016, Woollett confessed to interviewer Lou Heinrich of Guardian Australia (30 August 2016) that women in “messed up” relationships and women whose partners were “evil guys” fascinated her. ' (Introduction)
1 A Woman's Place i "For a century", Lesley Synge , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 41 no. 1-2 2015; (p. 137-138)
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