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Jane Gibian Jane Gibian i(A14539 works by)
Born: Established: 1972 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 I Stand i "in the place where I began, many arms", Jane Gibian , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 Masquerade i "the sun had moved to the left", Jane Gibian , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 163 2021; (p. 11)
1 ‘My Childbearing Hips’ : An Emotionally Powerful Anthology Jane Gibian , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 47-48)

— Review of What We Carry : Poetry on Childbearing 2021 anthology poetry

'On her explosive, feminist début album Dry (1992), a young P.J. Harvey sang ‘Look at these my childbearing hips’, proudly proclaiming women’s strength and physicality. The word ‘childbearing’ conjures strong feelings and images for many of us – whether of childbirth, sleep deprivation, devotion, or a whole new way of life. It signifies much more than childbirth itself and is a fitting choice for the subtitle of this anthology, Poetry on childbearing. This emotionally powerful collection covers an expansive range of experiences: infertility, conception, pregnancy, birth, and life with a baby (or not).' (Introduction)

1 News of the Week (for Women) i "M.J. Moriarty of Redfern found his wife", Jane Gibian , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , July 2021;
1 1 y separately published work icon Beneath the Tree Line Jane Gibian , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2021 21947110 2021 selected work poetry

'Jane Gibian’s poetry is remarkable for its clarity of perception and its sensitivity to the details and rhythms of life – whether in nature or in social routines. The poetry’s engagement is first and foremost with the natural environment, and with the contrast between the human engagement – with its extremes of fascination and despair – and the natural world itself, disinterested and unforgiving. The landscapes range from the coast to the forest, from rivers in urban settings to country towns and their surroundings. Their beauty is felt alongside their vulnerability to degradation. Throughout there is the awareness of connectedness, between people, places, seasons, animate and inanimate things – and the power of language to celebrate these connections, to register joy and constraint, and to draw on different kinds of reality. Later in the collection, Gibian’s poetry focuses on the passage of time and its vagaries, the ancient cycles of nature, the threat of change, personal histories, the fleeting moments of awareness captured in poems.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 Submerged i "Slips of fish like smears of transparence:", Jane Gibian , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing Water 2020;
1 A Nice Little Business Jane Gibian , 2020 single work
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries , September no. 407 2020; (p. 119-123)

'Part of daily life in the mid-twentieth century, circulating libraries have left charmed traces.

'If you walked down a suburban Sydney street in the 1930s or 1940's it's likely you would have passed a small privately run library. Hundreds of 'circulating' or subscription libraries operated from the early twentieth century to the 1960s.'

1 Within i "to begin with an ordinary path", Jane Gibian , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 160 2020; (p. 33)
1 Tilt i "A cake fork fallen from the plate,", Jane Gibian , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 22)
1 Restless i "from nowhere oversized leaves shoot", Jane Gibian , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , March vol. 7 no. 1 2020;
1 Vestigial i "You hold the vestiges of our past life", Jane Gibian , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 29 2020; (p. 56-57)
1 Cataloguing Ecologies Jane Gibian , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 51)
1 Mission Creep i "Autumn approaching the fiscal cliff, he had", Jane Gibian , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , December no. 6 2019;
1 Less Golden i "It was in March; no, it was April", Jane Gibian , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 82)
1 Skirting i "Tucking your head under one wing,", Jane Gibian , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 52)
1 Embossed i "Just waking, thin splinters of thought", Jane Gibian , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , March no. 2 2015;
1 Slipstone i "Untrodden rhythms: the pace of your life", Jane Gibian , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , March no. 2 2015;
1 Waiting i "at night the traffic lights change rapidly almost erratically / cars parked 90°", Jane Gibian , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Spoon Bending : A Chapbook Curated by Kent MacCarter Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
1 y separately published work icon Tidemark Jane Gibian , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2013 Z1933284 2013 selected work poetry
1 Loans Slip i "Perfect phrases for the sales call:", Jane Gibian , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013; (p. 93)
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