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Kerri Shying Kerri Shying i(10285338 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Chinese ; Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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1 2 y separately published work icon Know Your Country Kerri Shying , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2020 20961771 2020 selected work poetry

'Kerri Shying's compact opus Know Your Country hides a question in the title who's the you? Whose country is it anyway? Who needs to know? Who's asking? Who gets to ask what? Coming through these pages, every reader will find different answers and fresh questions needing to be asked. And what about when the questions are accusations?

'This is a book wise to little tricks for painting people into corners.' (Publication summary)  
1 The Fairy Bread of Daytime i "time drops", Kerri Shying , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 Air Freight i "someone sends me air…. it’s from America", Kerri Shying , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 1 y separately published work icon Knitting Mangrove Roots Kerri Shying , Bulahdelah : Cerberus Press Flying Island Books , 2019 19054082 2019 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon Elevensies Kerri Shying , Waratah : Puncher and Wattmann , 2018 19214678 2018 selected work poetry
1 And Bulbul Means Heart i "songbirds woke me", Kerri Shying , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2018;
1 Congolomerated Sorrow i "I found the bags left over from when you still dealt drugs hidden up the back", Kerri Shying , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2018;
1 The Come Down i "completely reveling in sloth the Sunday", Kerri Shying , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2018;
1 Choosing i "Earring swishing fell from favour", Kerri Shying , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2018;
1 Neonate i "chewing on the nipple my baby", Kerri Shying , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;
1 1 y separately published work icon Sing Out When You Want Me Kerri Shying , Karen Kun (translator), Macao : Flying Island Books , 2017 20380803 2017 selected work poetry
1 Home Land i "Speared in both legs", Kerri Shying , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , no. 26 2017;
1 Bury the Lede i "We are our own stories now", Kerri Shying , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , no. 25 2017;
1 Watched Aquarobics (mis En Scene) i "This day fills with water", Kerri Shying , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ear to Earth : An Anthology of Australian Poetry 2017 2017; (p. 47)
1 Hidden Talents. i "sat cold-arsed", Kerri Shying , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 57 2017;
1 Grief Is the Work of the Moon Kerri Shying , 2016 single work prose
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems for Grief Awareness Month 2016 2016;
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