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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Body Language
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'Body Language is a strong debut collection. Rather than heralding the sudden arrival of an exciting new voice in Australian poetry this book represents a voice that has been there for some time but is only just now confident enough to speak up and make itself heard, for Allen has been a silent participant and observer in the Australian poetry scene for some time. Here she writes about everyday experiences – doing a crossword, studying a bunch of flowers, watching a bird out the window – as they are refracted through the prism of the poet’s mind with all its obsessions, anxieties and peculiar sensitivities. Allen writes about grief and how we repeatedly make sense of absence, with moving accuracy. Her poetry is mindful and grounded in the body, but it also goes off on unusual imaginative tangents. These poems take us from Sydney to Italy, from the psychiatrist’s office to the hairdresser’s; there is sex, love, and friendship, and even Kate Moss makes an appearance. Allen’s poems are concerned with emotional rather than factual accuracy.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2012 .
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      Extent: 27p.
      ISBN: 9780980511321

Works about this Work

Plain Spoken Poems Rooted in Real Experience Geoff Page , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 February 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Body Language Elizabeth Allen , 2012 selected work poetry ; When Sky Becomes the Space Inside Your Head Ed Wright , 2012 selected work poetry
Three Chapbooks and a Book by Vagabond Press Heather Taylor Johnson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 2 2012; (p. 192-197)

— Review of Night Birds Michelle Cahill , 2010 single work poetry ; Beastly Eye Debbie Lim , 2012 selected work poetry ; Aftermarks Judith Bishop , 2012 selected work poetry ; Body Language Elizabeth Allen , 2012 selected work poetry
Savouring the Undertow Mark Roberts , 2012-2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November - February no. 6 2012-2013;

— Review of Body Language Elizabeth Allen , 2012 selected work poetry
Plain Spoken Poems Rooted in Real Experience Geoff Page , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 February 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Body Language Elizabeth Allen , 2012 selected work poetry ; When Sky Becomes the Space Inside Your Head Ed Wright , 2012 selected work poetry
Savouring the Undertow Mark Roberts , 2012-2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November - February no. 6 2012-2013;

— Review of Body Language Elizabeth Allen , 2012 selected work poetry
Three Chapbooks and a Book by Vagabond Press Heather Taylor Johnson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 2 2012; (p. 192-197)

— Review of Night Birds Michelle Cahill , 2010 single work poetry ; Beastly Eye Debbie Lim , 2012 selected work poetry ; Aftermarks Judith Bishop , 2012 selected work poetry ; Body Language Elizabeth Allen , 2012 selected work poetry
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