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Lucy been writing poetry, and reading it for a long time. The love affair with composition began in earnest in Wollongong under the tutorage of Deb Westbury. The classroom was a demountable, there were three of us in the class at the end of the term. The coffee was awful, the carpet was worn through, the demountable was like an oven. But our class started early, there were wattle-birds and pea-cocks in the distance. We wrote and wrote and laughed. Fathoms (1996) was born out of that time. The two other poetry students in that class appeared in the same volume, Jen Crawford went on to publish a further 2 books of poems. Feathered Tongues came eight years later. Some of those poems I'd worked on for eight years. Some of them came quickly - like 'Occupied Territory' which appeared in The Weekend Australian. 'Trajectories' was featured in The Best Australian Poems 2004 published by Black Ink and selected by Les Murray. Feathered Tongues was commended in the 2004 Anne Elder Award, the judges (Kevin Brophy and Robyn Rowland ) said: 'Feathered Tongues achieves a balance of sensuality, intelligence, horror, humour and tenderness, with a strong use of image.' Brook Emery Wrote: Here is a sensibility in which 'the iris of the poem drifts across the words' to give traditional romantic subjects - love, landscape, dreams, death, myth - a strange new life. Speaking 'air into water' across 'language's gap', these are poems of transformation in which the connection defies ellipsis. They are as light and wonderful as the birds that fly above their lines." You can purchase a copy of Feathered Tongues from me for $7.70 including GST with additional postage, they are now a rare and highly sought after collector's edition. |
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