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Born: Established:
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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1 The Shadow i "I’d been hooveringand pausedto open a window", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
1 Elegy to a Cabbage White i "you hopped on at the lights mistook", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
1 Wet Check Shirt i "He sits cross-legged on damp grass", Carolyn Abbs , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 66 no. 2 2021; (p. 90)
1 Poet on Train i "out the corner of my eye, an olive-skinned hand, black notebook on lap. profile", Carolyn Abbs , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020; (p. 19)
1 First Footprints i "Over and over, I return to that place on the shore.", Carolyn Abbs , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 183)
1 Magnolia i "i'm re-decorating the front room. walls are scuffed from kids play", Carolyn Abbs , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writ Poetry Review , February no. 4 2020;
1 Two Women i "the washing machine shakes the house", Carolyn Abbs , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 2 2019; (p. 11)
1 The Boy on the Wall Carolyn Abbs , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss: Volume Seven 2019;
1 Choreography of Touch i "I saw how they queued in twos", Carolyn Abbs , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. Special Issue no. 9 2019; (p. 76-77)
1 A Victory Grin i "I've always thought", Carolyn Abbs , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 63 no. 2 2018; (p. 186)
1 The Shrine i "The day is like a painting hazy", Carolyn Abbs , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 7 2017;
1 Audition i "Rattling through a tunnel on the Metro de Paris,", Carolyn Abbs , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 2 2017; (p. 37)
1 To the Lake i "a path through Michaelmas daisies", Carolyn Abbs , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 2 2017;
1 3 y separately published work icon The Tiny Museums Carolyn Abbs , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2017 11947023 2017 selected work poetry

'Praise for The Tiny Museums

'This richly imagined and sensuous collection understands human longing. It vividly conjures childhood, and presents adulthood as a series of sometimes haunted negotiations between past and present. A number of poems also conjure dynamic visions of works of art. For Carolyn Abbs, apprehending the world is often a matter of seeing and touching what she knows. She addresses deep issues through making complex linguistic textures and evoking intimate poetic registers. PAUL HETHERINGTON

'Carolyn Abbs deftly creates the world of her book through a phenomenological approach. Elegant layers of textures, colours, sounds and movement invite the reader into numerous exchanges between the past and the present. In this way, her sensibility is painterly but it’s a Northern light in her poems reminiscent of the crisp mysteries of a Vermeer painting. Abbs’s poems dealing with family grief are centrepieces of the book and admirable in their ability to move the reader without overt sentimentality. Along with a skilled attentiveness to the ways in which sound moves through a line, this beautifully modulated emotional intelligence is a very great strength of her poetry. Via The Tiny Museums she bestows on her readers ‘a kind of overgrown underground’. LUCY DOUGAN' (Publication summary)

1 The Silver Bracelet i "My mother hid the bracelet", Carolyn Abbs , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 62 no. 1 2017; (p. 210)
1 Mona Lisa i "The sheep are grazing on the Downs;", Carolyn Abbs , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March vol. 57 no. 1 2017;
1 First Voices i "You would wait in that dark room", Carolyn Abbs , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Uneven Floor , June 2016;
1 Tulips in Black and White i "Sadness overwhelms me in this circle of cut", Carolyn Abbs , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Western Australia 2016;
1 Orphan’s Boot i "Distempered walls crowd in cold at the old", Carolyn Abbs , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Western Australia 2016;
1 Bony Fingers Carolyn Abbs , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW New Writing Twenty-Seven , no. 27 2016; (p. 3)
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