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Paula Keogh Paula Keogh i(10759520 works by)
Gender: Female
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'Paula Keogh is a Melbourne writer who grew up in Canberra and also lived in Adelaide and Toronto. She taught at RMIT University for ten years, conducting workshops and developing teaching resources. Her focus was student writing and the professional development of academic staff.

'Prior to this, Paula had an eclectic work life. She taught English as a second language, picked grapes, assisted at a winery, and worked as a personal carer and gardener. She has a PhD in creative writing.' (Source : Author's website)

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y separately published work icon The Green Bell : A Memoir of Love, Madness and Poetry Melbourne : Affirm Press , 2017 10759542 2017 single work autobiography

'It’s 1972 in Canberra. Michael Dransfield is being treated for a drug addiction; Paula Keogh is delusional and grief-stricken. They meet in a psychiatric unit of the Canberra Hospital and instantly fall in love.

'Paula recovers a self that she thought was lost; Michael, a radical poet, is caught up in a rush of creative energy and writes poems that become The Second Month of Spring. Together, they plan for ‘a wedding, marriage, kids – the whole trip’. But outside the hospital walls, madness, grief and drugs challenge their luminous dream. Can their love survive?

'The Green Bell is a lyrical and profoundly moving story about love and madness. It explores the ways that extreme experience can change us: expose our terrors and open us to ecstasy for the sake of a truer life, a reconciliation with who we are. Ultimately, the memoir reveals itself to be a hymn to life. A requiem for lost friends. A coming of age story that takes a lifetime.' (Publication summary)
2018 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
2018 longlisted The Stella Prize
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