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Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
Poems
Oliver, Mary. âI Go Down to the Shoreâ. A Thousand Mornings, New York: Penguin Press, 2012.Saunders, Kirli. âDear Ancestorsâ. Kindred, Broome: Magabala Books, 2019.Dickinson, Emily. âThis is my letter to the worldâ. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston: Little, Brown, 1955Mistral, Gabriela. âThree Treesâ. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, University of New Mexico Press, 2003.Burns, Hermina. âThe bay at Separation creekâ. Against Separation Creek, Bristlebird Press, 2019.Rodopoulos, Loula. âChestnutsâ. Loula Rodopoulos â Our Tribute, Victorian Womenâs Benevolent Trust, 2015.van Neerven, Ellen. âWhole Lotâ. Comfort Food, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2016. -
This episode discusses violence and abuse. If this raises any issues for you, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit our website for a full list of support services.
Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
Poems
Akhmatova, Anna. âPrologueâ. Selected Poems, Penguin, 1985.Choi, Franny. âTO THE MAN WHO SHOUTED âI LIKE PORK FRIED RICEâ AT ME ON THE STREETâ. Floating, Brilliant, Gone, Write Bloody Publishing, 2014.Burns, Hermina. âThe Stickâ. Crossing a Line, Bristlebird Press, 2020.Kefala, Antigone. âThe Actual placesâ. Absence, 2010.Fullerton, Mary. âPuppetsâ. Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets by Llewellyn Kate, Llewellyn Kate and Susan Hampton, 1986.van Neerven, Ellen. âWomen are still not being heardâ. Throat University of Queensland Press, 2020. -
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The poems selected are about love. Some also touch on the grief we feel when we lose a loved one. One poem in particular is about the loss of a child.
If this raises any issues for you, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit our website for a full list of support services: https://www.vwt.org.au/support-services/
Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
Poems
Porter, Dorothy. 'Why I love your body'. Crete, South Melbourne: Hyland House,1996.Dickinson, Emily. '1731'. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston: Little, Brown, 1924Burns, Hermina. 'Considering a long marriage'. Against Separation Creek, Bristlebird Press, 2019.Wright, Judith. 'Stillborn'. Judith Wright: Collected Poems, Angus and Robertson, 1971.Arnold, Josie. 'Patchwork'. Love Laughing among the Trees, Longman Cheshire, 1982.van Neerven, Ellen. "This deadly love". Throat, University of Queensland Press, 2020. -
Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
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Espinoza, Joshua Jennifer. âMakeup Ritualâ. Them. November 2017.van Neerven, Maria. âNot your motherâGilmore, Mary. âThe Womanâ. Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets by Llewellyn Kate, Llewellyn Kate and Susan Hampton, 1986.Arnold, Josie Stainsby. âGynaecologyâ. Love Laughing among the Trees, Longman Cheshire, 1982.van Neerven, Ellen. âQueensâ. Throat, University of Queensland Press, 2020.Beneba Clarke, Maxine. âMy Feminismâ. Trust Journal, Victorian Womenâs Trust, 2017. -
Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
Nichols, Grace. âInvitationâ. The fat black womanâs poems. London: Virago, 1984.Harford, Lesbia. âPeriodicityâ. Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets by Llewellyn Kate, Llewellyn Kate and Susan Hampton, 1986Campbell, Elizabeth. âIn public, gawping at the kidâ. Error, John Leonard Press, 2011M. Eames, Robin. âAnabasisâ. Westerly, 2019. Burns, Hermina. âSkin in Historyâ. Bite of a Bluebottle Bristlebird Press, 2019.van Neerven, Ellen. âDysphoriaâ. Overlandno.232Springperiodical issue, 2018. -
Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
Bellear, Lisa. "Hanover Street Brunswick 3056". Australian Literature Diary blog, Kerryn Goldsworthy, 2006.van Neerven, Ellen. "Chips". ABR's States of Poetry, #17 States of Poetry QLD Podcast | 'Chips', 2016.Burns, Hermina. âSister Love.â Dodging the relative, Due for release later in 2020.Reed-Gilbert, Aunty Kuracca Kerry. "Got Ya." States of Poetry 2017 - ACT anthology, Australian Book Review, 2017.Andrada, Eunice. "(BECAUSE I AM A DAUGHTER) OF DIASPORA" Solid Air : Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word, David Stavanger (editor), Anne-Marie Te Whiu (editor), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2019 anthology poetry pg. 4-5Correction: We refer to the 1997 report on the Stolen Generation, Bringing them Home as headed by Ronald Henderson. It was in fact headed by Sir Ronald Wilson.
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Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
Saunders, Kirli. âAunty.â Kindred Magabala Books, 2019.Alexander, Elizabeth. âButter.â Body of Life Tia Chucha Press, 1996.Royalle, Candy. âMother.â The Disappearing Project, Red Room Poetry, 2012.Elder, Anne. âJust for Today.âBurns, Hermina. âForaging.â Bite of a Bluebottle Bristlebird Press, 2019.van Neerven, Ellen. âBold and Beautifulâ. Throat University of Queensland Press, 2020.
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Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
Angelou, Maya. âWoman Work.â And Still I Rise Random House, 1978.Burns, Hermina. âIroning.â Bite of a Bluebottle Bristlebird Press, 2019.Leane, Jeanine. âUnfinished Businessâ. Cordite Poetry Review, 1 February 2019.Van Neerven, Ellen. âVinegarâ. Cordite Poetry Review, 1 February 2019.Elson, Rebecca. âAntidotes to Fear of Deathâ. Responsibility to Awe, published by Carcanet Classics, 2018.
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Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Poem Unfinished Business by Dr. Jeanine Leane, read by Ellen van Neerven | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers