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Amanda Joy Amanda Joy i(A131294 works by)
Born: Established: Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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Amanda Joy is a poet, sculptor, installation artist and songwriter born in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her poetry has been published in various journals online and in print such as Cottonmouth, Up The Staircase Literary Review, Killpoet, Fragile Arts Quarterly, Black Rider Press, Another Lost Shark, Heroin Love Songs, The Toronto Quarterly, Black Listed Magazine, Speedpoets and The Best Australian Poems 2009. Joy has also worked as an editor of Creatrix Poetry Journal.

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y separately published work icon Snake Like Charms Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2017 10716614 2017 selected work poetry

'Praise for Snake Like Charms:

'Amanda Joy’s first full-scale book Snake Like Charms was five years in the making. It’s grounded deep in reality as are the snake cultures and legends it draws from. Amanda Joy is a poet from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, origin of the Rainbow Serpent, the Great Spirit that represents the world’s oldest religious tradition. According to Indigenous song-cycles, a snake literally created this country. These lines from the poem ‘Your Ground’ carry their wisdom lightly “snake says / be still / stand your ground / it's the only protection we have’.' (Publication summary)
2018 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
Tailings i "Eyelets of cosmos, anaemic stars, only gazing in words. That parrot", 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 379 2016; (p. 26)
2016 shortlisted Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Almost Pause : Pareidolia i "Labile wonder, no rabbit-like fear, sea hares", 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blake Prize 2007; The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 98-99)
2013 highly commended Blake Poetry Prize
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