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Shari Kocher Shari Kocher i(A25574 works by) (a.k.a. Shari Kocher Campbell)
Gender: Female
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1 Poem Whose Volume Contains Attenuated Pause i "If to care means look closely, then streetscape", Shari Kocher , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Foxstruck and Other Collisions Shari Kocher , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2020 21070027 2020 selected work poetry

'Through centuries, poets and artists have asked how to love and not be destroyed, how to enter the mystery of the dance and allow utter disintegration while tapping, and tapping at, the heart. This collection draws on ekphrastic and encaustic traditions in literature, alchemy and painting to explore the paradoxes of making and being, of devotion and seeing, of sustenance and sentience in matter infused with and bewildered by what we call love. Its formal task invokes a six-pointed star, the alchemic decantation of which surrenders the light of lead to the fallible compromises of what inexplicably shifts when we name the light gold.

'Erudite, sage, and deeply indebted to tradition, Kocher hones her imagery to a fierce precision, such that the poems in Foxstruck and Other Collisions transcend beauty and become something uttered otherhow, both spellbinding and life affirming at once. Kocher writes the domestic microcosm with a dark and reeling lucidity, and when she turns her notice to the natural world, which is ever present in her work, a profound environmental consciousness opens the porous body somatically, as a dance. This is dazzling poetry. —Joan Fleming' (Publication summary)

1 Ode to Green i "Children are a necessary", Shari Kocher , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 29 2020; (p. 64-65)
1 Ode to Earth i "In her speaking she returns to us and I,", Shari Kocher , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 6 no. 2 2019;
1 Break, / ‘The Silent Life-giver of Worlds’ Shari Kocher , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 2 2019; (p. 125-128)
1 I Am a Little Eye Breaking Shari Kocher , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss: Volume Seven 2019;
1 One Infinity i "Writing with a horsehair brush", Shari Kocher , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2019; (p. 135)
1 Notes on a Sunday Night before Sleeping i "A gecko slips under the fold", Shari Kocher , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 5 no. 2 2018; Australian Poetry Anthology 2019; (p. 106)
1 In the Rothko Room at the Tate i "through the pink funerary door", Shari Kocher , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 2 2017; (p. 51)
1 Black Door with Snow i "Warm billowing swill of night, I hold you back, I pull you tight.", Shari Kocher , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 392 2017; Australian Poetry Anthology 2018; (p. 26)
1 As We Spiral Pine Tree Mountain i "What small herbs of ice and wind", Shari Kocher , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017;
1 The Girl in the Mirror i "at sixteen / the girl in her mirror", Shari Kocher , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 197)
1 San Pedro Market i "from a vendor", Shari Kocher , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 1 2016; (p. 78)
1 An Extract from the Verse Novel, Sonqoqui Shari Kocher , 2016 extract novel
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 8 no. 2 2016;
1 Clove Floating in Purple Corn Juice i "half asleep on a rooftop in Arequipa with the sun going down drinking chicha morada", Shari Kocher , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 37 2016; (p. 49)
1 The Glimpse i "To open into the day-wide-day, and find it wanting.", Shari Kocher , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , November vol. 4 no. 2 2016; (p. 3)
1 Fritter the Fat Then Fry It i "Once upon a time a house", Shari Kocher , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 64-67)
1 Foxstruck i "Dinner done, dishes draining, the fire", Shari Kocher , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 2 2015; (p. 112) The Best Australian Poems 2016 2016; (p. 112)
1 4 y separately published work icon The Non-Sequitur of Snow Shari Kocher , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2015 9242894 2015 selected work poetry

'Moving non-chronologically through youth and maturity, dreamscapes and time, Shari Kocher's long-awaited first collection charges the elusive music of cross-generational song-lines-mothers and daughters, daughters and grandmothers, lovers and kin-with the invisibles and intangibles of two decades spent honing her craft. This is a book about breathing. It is also about the changing contours of the journey home, even when the ground of what is meant by home seems most absent, impossible or undone. Rooted in place, yet animated by the immaterial, these poems breathe a body of living and loving alive. ' (Publication summary)

1 Gratitude i "green the trembling rice", Shari Kocher , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Prayers of a Secular World 2015; (p. 44-45)
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