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Carmel Bird Carmel Bird i(A31077 works by)
Also writes as: Jack Power
Born: Established: 1940 Launceston, Northeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ;
Gender: Female
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Cape Grimm Carmel Bird , Pymble : Flamingo , 2004 Z1095404 2004 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'One clear evening in 1992 all the inhabitants enter the church hall, where they are locked in and burned alive. They have been persuaded to do this by a young man called Caleb Mean - also known as El Nino, the Christ Child. The only survivors of the fire are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter Golden. How could such a thing happen? And why? Do the answers lie in the tragedy of the Aborigines herded over the cliffs at Cape Grimm by white settlers? Are they in the history of Skye itself, founded by the unlikely survivors of a 19th-century shipwreck? Or do they lie within the mysteries of the human soul?' 

Source: ABE Books https://bit.ly/3gtVDeN

 		Writing Tasmania University of Tasmania 2015 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Dear Writer Revisited Carmel Bird , Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2013 6384792 2013 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)

'This book about writing and the imagination is essential reading for any writer, emerging or experienced. Re-released with new material and updated advice for the 21st century writer. Contains advice for writers, inspirational quotes from numerous authors as well as writing exercises.' (Publication summary)

 		Writing Short Fiction University of Tasmania 2014 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The White Garden Carmel Bird , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z565978 1995 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'Seven people die in deep sleep therapy. A woman dies from a bee-sting on the grounds of a psychiatric clinic where inmates are encouraged to live out their delusions. A doctor rapes his patients in the Sleeping Beauty Ward.
Carmel Bird's examination of the secrets of the human mind is a chronicle of tragedy that is inadvertently revealed in the search for a lost library book. It is also a compelling portrait of a doctor whose lust for power is a form of madness.'

Source: Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39249.The_White_Garden

 		Australian Literature and Society (Contemporary) Edith Cowan University 2009
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