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Joanne Burns Joanne Burns i(A29085 works by)
Also writes as: 'Ethelred Malley' ; 'Sylvia Malley'
Born: Established: 1945 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Humidicribs i "the day after the 'inadequate' club opened its doors they were ripped out their", Joanne Burns , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 32 2020; (p. 38-43)
1 Cottontale i "when i read at sappho’s", Joanne Burns , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 239 2020; (p. 64)
1 Rim i "you cup your hands. hold and press them to your face. waiting for something to appear – a voice, an image", Joanne Burns , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 95 2020;
1 A Pocketful of Poesie i "no more conquistadores", Joanne Burns , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 28 2019; (p. 106-107)
1 Pawn i "squabble of federated dreams", Joanne Burns , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 28 2019; (p. 104-105)
1 Numb i "twenty five bank account numbers", Joanne Burns , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 28 2019; (p. 22-23)
1 Wraps i "a rotting brocade of the heart", Joanne Burns , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 33)
1 5 y separately published work icon Apparently Joanne Burns , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2019 15527564 2019 selected work poetry

'The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from? Over four sections this question is considered. The first section gathers poems spring-boarding from the clues and solutions to crossword puzzles; the second recounts unsettling dreams in the form of prose poems or microfictions; ‘dial’, the longest section, acknowledges the bewildering sense of daily time and the dizzying spectacle of social and worldly matters contained within. Finally, from a more restful or relaxed vantage, ‘the random couch’ presents a number of drifting poems, written while the poet was lounging on the sofa.'

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1 A Query or Two i "you might prefer a that table", Joanne Burns , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 8 no. 2 2018; (p. 92)
1 Unfamiliar i "begats and", Joanne Burns , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 42-43)
1 Snob i "don’t think i’ll hear", Joanne Burns , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;
1 Nod i "the breath of history", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , no. 26 2017;
1 Compensation i "excitement a refised", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 28)
1 Mercy i "an hour glass hip hops", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 26)
1 Lemon Aid i "a life not even hyphenated or", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 25)
1 Shutters i "a stockpile of crime", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September no. 7 2017;
1 Planchette i "the anarchy of sober", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September no. 7 2017;
1 Drain i "the wind blew ~", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September no. 7 2017;
1 Chill i "refrigerate the deal", Joanne Burns , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September no. 7 2017;
1 Introduction Joanne Burns , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: New Poems 2017; 'In this selection of poems, Lee Cataldi writes in a spare, lean, direct way, steered by an aesthetic of restraint. She often uses internal spacing and short stanzas to re-enforce her measure. A sense of loss inhabits a number of the poems. Cataldi has worked as a teacher and linguist in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. In ‘the opening of the children’s centre in Balgo’ the language centre seems to have gone' (Introduction)
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