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1 Exchanges i "Hi Holly", Holly Isemonger , Ella Skilbeck-Porter , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 2 2023; (p. 18-23)
1 1 y separately published work icon Greatest Hit Holly Isemonger , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2023 25518131 2023 selected work poetry

'In her long-awaited debut collection, Holly Isemonger, engages, pulls apart, and ingeniously reassembles our language to surprising, ingenious ends. Despite the formal innovation there is nothing cold or dry about this collection: it is funny and sad, biting and wrenching, immediate and tender. These poems are excursions which incorporate both the communal and the deeply personal. If they are ‘experimental’, then they are experiments from the heart. Isemonger’s work is irreverent, never boring, always buffered by exquisite sensibility, style and form. Greatest Hit is a stunning and highly anticipated debut by the winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Genesis: I: I-VIII i "The poem woke me up this morning. Rude. It was early and urgent and I didn't like it", Holly Isemonger , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , November vol. 41 no. 3 2022; (p. 55)
1 My Life as an Artist i "I lost sleep last night-so tired my head is a potato. My life was always art, but work made it", Holly Isemonger , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 247 2022; (p. 62)
1 Shadows i "I have submitted a poem to a competition. I am excited and proud that", Holly Isemonger , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 66 no. 2 2021; (p. 84-85)
1 Sweat i "when did summer? why is this", Holly Isemonger , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 Comic Sans i "This is your form", Holly Isemonger , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: MAD Poetry 2020;
1 1 Surfing Is My Feminist Origin Story (In That I Left for the Arts Swiftly, and Remained Angry) Holly Isemonger , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow [Online] , May 2017;
1 OK Cupid i "A man who ‘writes’ messages me on OkCupid saying he won’t read other authors,", Holly Isemonger , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 226 2017; (p. 31) Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 94) Judges Report : Holly Isemonger’s ‘OK cupid’, the other equal first-place prizewinner, is a dark, post-digital love poem in which the words of three stanzas are recombined to tell a warped tale about the split-second decisions one makes in the world of online dating. The poem could be seen as a nocturne: the words rotate almost musically, but the recombinations also deconstruct the events within the poem. ‘OK cupid’ shows how repetition is really, in Gertrude Stein’s sense, insistence.
1 Adaptions i "The day before we move in together I’m reading Joan Didion in your bed,", Holly Isemonger , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 57 2017; Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 95)
1 Aesthetics i "Truly don’t understand", Holly Isemonger , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , March 2016;
1 Museum Incantation i "let autumn crust the skin", Holly Isemonger , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , March 2016; Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 Austerity Spell i "beware the false prophets", Holly Isemonger , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , March 2016; Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 Morning Hymn i "hate like intricate fractures", Holly Isemonger , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , March 2016; Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 Sad Witch Psalms ;( Holly Isemonger , 2016 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , March 2016; Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 Failed Screenplays Holly Isemonger , 2016 single work drama
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , March 2016;
1 1 y separately published work icon Deluxe Paperweight Holly Isemonger , Sydney : SOd Press , 2016 10218183 2016 selected work poetry
1 Cusp i "The highway mid-January,", Holly Isemonger , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 98 2014; (p. 81)
1 Tidal Bodies i "Sand is pressed underfoot,", Holly Isemonger , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 97 2014; (p. 47)
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