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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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1 Amanda Joy Reviews That Sight by Marjon Mossammaparast Amanda Joy , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , April 2019;
— Review of That Sight Marjon Mossammaparast , 2018 selected work poetry
1 Map of a Forest/ Urania’s Mirror i "Draco and Ursa Minor", Amanda Joy , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 26 2019;
1 Krebs Cycle i "More augur and sere, bloodwood trees raft a mirage", Amanda Joy , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;
1 Perth Poetry Festival – Keynote Address Amanda Joy , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , July-September no. 23 2017;

As patron of the 2017 Perth Poetry Festival Amanda Joy delivered the 2017 Festival Keynote address on 17 August at the Northbridge Piazza Community Room.
1 Locus i "I was carelessly concealed", Amanda Joy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 22 2017;
1 Snake Skin, Roe Swamp i "Shedding skin of a snake, will", Amanda Joy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 22 2017; The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry 2017;
1 Making a Meal of It i "Flinty incision", Amanda Joy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 22 2017;
1 6 y separately published work icon Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 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)
1 The Long Dry i "Men are hanging themselves unaccompanied", Amanda Joy , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry , May 2016; (p. 134-135)
1 Sea Krait, Broome i "How slow an approach when viewed", Amanda Joy , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry , May 2016; (p. 132-133)
1 Tailings i "Eyelets of cosmos, anaemic stars, only gazing in words. That parrot", Amanda Joy , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 379 2016; (p. 26)
1 y separately published work icon Poetry D'Amour 2016 : Love Poetry Amanda Joy (editor), Inglewood : WA Poets Inc , 2016 10773412 2016 anthology poetry
1 Snake Like Charms (Tiger) i "We had left the path", Amanda Joy , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Regime , no. 5 2015; (p. 68-69)
1 Review Short : Rose Lucas’s Even in the Dark Amanda Joy , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
— Review of Even in the Dark Rose Lucas , 2013 selected work poetry
1 Almost Pause : Pareidolia i "Labile wonder, no rabbit-like fear, sea hares", Amanda Joy , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blake Prize 2007; The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 98-99)
1 y separately published work icon Orchid Poems Amanda Joy , Kalgoorlie : Mulla Mulla Press , 2012 Z1885333 2012 selected work poetry
1 Conjoined i "Chinese New year in a room", Amanda Joy , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Regime , no. 1 2012; (p. 5)
1 All The Way Home i "Beginnings deteriorate", Amanda Joy , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creatrix , September no. 10 2010;
1 Song i "This peninsula", Amanda Joy , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creatrix , September no. 10 2010;
1 Ghostling i "Deceptively simple", Amanda Joy , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stylus Poetry Journal , [June] no. 37 2010;
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