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About Gina Mercer | States of Poetry TAS - Series Two

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States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

About Gina Mercer | States of Poetry TAS - Series Two

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States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

Gina Mercer States of PoetryGina Mercer enjoys a three-stranded career as writer, teacher, and editor. She has taught creative writing and literature in universities and communities for thirty years. She was Managing Editor of Island magazine, 2006–10. She has published a novel, Parachute Silk (Spinifex Press, 2001) and two academic books (UQP, 1994; Peter Lang, New York, 2001).

Gina has published five collections of poetry: The Ocean in the Kitchen (Five Islands Press, 1999), Night Breathing (Picaro Press, 2006), Handfeeding the Crocodile (Pardalote Press, 2007), and Seasoned with Honey (with three other women poets, Walleah Press, 2008). Her most recent collection, Weaving Nests with Smoke and Stone (Walleah Press, 2015), is all about birds.

Poems

'Extracts from the Dictionary Aquatic'

'Rapides'

'My first ever selfie'

'Waking up poem'

'After, there are birds'

 

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