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Poet and PhD student in French Studies and visual poetry @unimelb These Are Different Waters out with Vagabond Press (2023)

Naarm/Melbourne
Joined July 2014
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My book of poetry & visual poetry These Are Different Waters is out now with Vagabond Press 🌊💙🌊💙 The book collects poems written over a decade, loosely arranged around the motif of the municipal swimming pool. vagabondpress.net/products/e…
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I want your ‘Space’ poetry for @corditepoetry Submit by September 1 📗🔭⭐️
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Tonight Alexis Wright becomes the first Australian writer to win the ALS Gold Medal three times. “PRAISEWORTHY is hilarious, furious, poetical and painful, and all in large order.” @GiramondoBooks
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“This is a poetry that pushes grammatical and existential boundaries, dunking on the reader with imperatives, or subtly reflecting and refracting incessant managerial nominalisations.” Dan Hogan (@packetofchips) wins the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award! @corditepoetry
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Guest-edited by Mykaela Saunders, the Odes series invites six First Nations poets to write an ode to another. Featuring poems from Ali Cobby Eckermann, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jeanine Leane, Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta, Lionel G. Fogarty & Tony Birch.
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award: Ella Skillbeck-Porter, THESE ARE DIFFERENT WATERS “When you send a book out into the world, you hope it finds its readers & connects, so I’m moved & honoured to have reached the shortlist alongside so many incredible titles.” @ella_esp
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Big thx to the judges of the 2023 Anne Elder Award for these comments. Thrilled to have my book among such a fire list ❤️‍🔥 Congrats to @SaraSalehTweets @nolotusblossom @NadiaNiaz Check out @AusPoetry site for comments on all of the books: australianpoetry.org/competi…
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The judges also awarded three highly commended awards: These Are Different Waters by Ella Skilbeck-Porter (Vagabond, 2023), Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (Giramondo, 2023) and The Djinn Hunters by Nadia Niaz (Rabbit, 2023).
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The winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 is Sara M Saleh (@SaraSalehTweets) with The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (@UQPbooks, 2023). This year's judging panel included Jeanine Leane, Panda Wong and Harry Reid
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Thank you to @ASAustLit & to the Mary Gilmore award & judges! Honoured & thrilled to be on this shortlist alongside incredible company!
Congratulations to the 6 poets shortlisted for the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award: Dan Hogan, Secret Third Thing Paris Rosemont, Banana Girl Sara Saleh, The Flirtation of Girls Ella Skillbeck-Porter, These are Different Waters Tais Rose Wae, Riverbed Sky Songs Grace Yee, Chinese Fish
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⚡️SALON NEWS ⚡️ Join us on Tuesday 14th November for our last salon of the year: an evening of readings from Nick Roger Clarke, Amy Crutchfield, Paul Dalgarno, André Dao, Ella Skilbeck-Porter and Emily Spurr.  For more info head to our salon page: shorturl.at/gvz23 🥳📚
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O to blot out this garden to forget, to find a new beauty in some terrible wind-tortured place. —H.D. was born #OnThisDay in 1886. #PoemOfTheDay bit.ly/44LMV1E
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A few photos of my book out in the wild! Returning to its source 🌊
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Strike has started! Now at Raymond Priestly #unimelbstrikes
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Welcome to strike week! Thousands of @NTEUnion members across Victoria are taking industrial action: a ground-breaking 5-day strike at @UniMelb, as well as half-day strikes at @Swinburne and @RMIT. #HigherED needs a better deal: Real Pay Rises | Secure Jobs | Fair Workloads.
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given I’m very often asking Writers Victoria tutors to promote their workshops, I should probably actually post about my own mini-workshop next week — here is a link & a picture with details: writersvictoria.org.au/calen…
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Our new bimonthly newsletter, RE:HEAT is a letter of recommendation from one writer on another, which brings to light some of the extraordinary writing in the HEAT archive. Read the first instalment here, featuring @JosephineRowe on Gillian Mears: mailchi.mp/giramondopublishi…
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