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Acknowledgements
Some of the poems in this collection have been previously
published, occasionally in very different forms. I’d like to thank the
following journals, online literary media, newspapers and radio for
their support: Divan (online), Heat, OzPoet (online), Lesbiana,
Overland, Common…Places (online), Suniti Namjoshi Homepage
(online), Absolutely Women’s Health, Experimedia (online), Hecate,
Thylazine (online), The Box Seat, ABC Radio National, and especially
Barry Hill of The Australian. Others have appeared in anthologies
and I thank the editors of Interior Despots: Running the Border edited
by Sue Moss and Karen Knight; Pardalote Press, 2001; Car
Maintenance, Explosives and Love and Other Lesbian Writings edited
by Cathie Dunsford, Susan Hawthorne and Susan Sayer, Spinifex
Press, 1997; Body Lines, edited by Jillian Bartlett and Cathi Joseph.
Redress Women’s Press, 1991; Breaking Free edited by Beatriz
Copello and Robyn Lanssen, Bemac Publications, 2004.
Two poems were performed by the Performing Older Women’s
Circus as physical theatre pieces: Unstopped Mouths, The Pit
Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre, 1997; Carnivale,
Swinburne University, Lilydale Campus, 1998. Some sections of
Rose Garden were incorporated into the script of The Maiden Aunt’s
Story, Gay Games, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, 2002. Three
poems have been performed as solo or duo performances: Gravity
Defied. 3 rd Melbourne Poetry Festival Opening Night. Chapel Off
Chapel, Melbourne, 2001; Townsville International Women’s
Conference, 2002; Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, 2002; Gay Games,
Newtown New Works, New Theatre, King Street, Newtown,
Sydney, 2002; Animal House, Massey University Events Centre,
Palmerston North, New Zealand, 2003; Greek. Doors, Rooms … and
Going Up the Wall, performance with Gayle McPherson in
conjunction with exhibition of art works by Suzanne Bellamy, 2004.
Eye of a needle was commissioned by the 10th International
Women’s Health Meeting, New Delhi, India 2005.
The series of poems entitled “Unstopped Mouths” was written
with the assistance of a Developing Writers’ Grant from Arts
Victoria, 1998.
If I were to acknowledge all the works that have gone into this
collection of poems the list of sources would be longer than the