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About Liz Hall-Downs
Contact Liz via:
PO Box 5858 West End, Queensland, 4101, Australia
Email: Liz Hall-Downs
Liz Hall-Downs has been reading and performing her writing in public since 1983. She has been a featured poet at countless venues across Australia, has toured in the USA, and has had work published and broadcast on TV and radio in both countries. Her newest poetry collection, Girl With Green Hair, was published in October, 2000.
As well as poetry, Liz writes fiction, articles and reviews and has worked as a freelance editor, writer-in-residence, workshop facilitator, singer, and community artist. Collaborative writing projects include Fit of Passion, a poetry and music show about gender issues which toured regional Queensland in 1997, and Blackfellas Whitefellas Wetlands, a local cultural and environmental history project commissioned by Brisbane City Council in 1996 (published online in 1996 and released on CD in 2000). In 1999 she was employed by Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Wildlife Preservation Society to conduct a series of community writing workshops and to write a collection of historical poetry based on the Mountains to Mangroves wildlife corridor on Brisbane's northside.
She holds a BA from Deakin University (Victoria) with major studies in Professional Writing & Literature. In August 2001, she was a recipient of a month-long Writers' Fellowship at Charles Sturt University to work on a new collection of poetry, My Arthritic Heart. She is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland and is working on a realist novel, The Death of Jimi Hendrix.
Girl With Green Hair, (Papyrus, 2000) poems by Liz Hall-Downs
A Dress of Stars, an extract from the novel-in-progress, The Death of Jimi Hendrix, at Issue 1 of Mangrove online journal.
Fit of Passion, (Fit of Passion Collective, 1997) a collaborative book and audio cassette of performance poems and songs by Liz Hall-Downs and Kim Downs. The work deals, humorously and sometimes with pathos, with issues of gender and identity.
Blackfellas Whitefellas Wetlands, Poetry & Music from the Boondall Wetlands by Liz Hall-Downs, B.R. Dionysius, and Samuel Wagan Watson, Brisbane City Council & Boondall Wetlands Management Committee, Audio CD, 2000
Other Drunken Boat Links
http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/ausintro.html
http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/fitofpassion.html
http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/arthritic.html
http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/halldownsbio.html
Thylazine: Issue 3, March 2002 ( Interview, article and poems )
Grumblebum chapbook, USA, 1994
Writers of the Storm: 5 East Coast Performance Poets Tyagarah Consultants, Lismore, 1993
Conscious Razing: combustible poems Self-published, 1986
Under Her Eyes Self-published A4 chapbook, 1984
Online collections:
People of the Wetlands, a collection of poetry about the history and the environment of Brisbane's RAMSAR site, the Boondall Wetlands.
Mountains to Mangroves and Mountains to Mangroves Haiku Cycle A collection of Historical/Environmental writing commissioned by Brisbane City Council and Queensland Wildlife Preservation Society, 1999. Poetry about the history and environment of the Mountains to Mangroves wildlife corridor, which runs across Brisbane's northside, from Brisbane Forest Park to the Boondall Wetlands. Also a collection of community writing produced from workshops facilitated by Liz Hall-Downs.
Text and Photos: Liz Hall-Downs and Kim Downs
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