Thanks for being my first visitor and for your comments Paul. I had a quick look around gingatao.com and found lots of interest. I am writing a lot of 'proseypoemthingies' myself at the moment and so really enjoyed your Man Loathing... Among others. And the Burning Piano image! Cheers, Lizz
Winner of the 2021 ACT Notable Award - Poetry (Big Press)
WHERE TO GET IT
The Wear of My Face (Spinifex Press, $24.95, pb, 96 pp) is available from all good bookshops and from www.spinifexpress.com.au
WHO? WHERE?
Irish-Australian poet Lizz Murphy has published fourteen books, nine of them poetry titles including The Wear of my Face, Shebird, Portraits: 54 Poems and Six Hundred Dollars - PressPress, Walk the Wildly - Picaro/Ginninderra Press, Stop Your Cryin - Island Press, Two Lips Went Shopping (print & e-book) - Spinifex Press. Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (ed. Spinifex Press 1996, 2000) popular in Australia, Ireland, UK, US, Canada, NZ, is still available. Published widely in Australian journals and anthologies with publication also in Canada, China, England, India, Ireland, Poland, US. She writes between Binalong NSW and Canberra ACT and is a former Canberra Times Poetry Editor.
COMMENTS
Thank you for your visits. You are also welcome to comment.
They are very lovely poems. I particularly like The Black Taxi with its interest in language and dialect and syncopated rhythm. Hello,
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