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Diane Fahey Diane Fahey i(A36266 works by) (birth name: Diane Mary Brotheridge) (a.k.a. Diane Mary Fahey)
Also writes as: Diane Dodwell
Born: Established: 1945 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Sunday Rain Diane Fahey , single work poetry
1 Lake Sumar Gardens Diane Fahey , single work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Light Cafe Diane Fahey , Seddon : Liquid Amber Press , 2023 26575610 2023 selected work poetry "The poems in this wonderful book trace the most subtle shifts of light, the lives of clouds and birds, with such delicacy and intensity as to make them sources of revelation. The experiences registered in 'The Light Cafe' may seem to be at the margins of the mind's usual range of attentiveness, at the edges of consciousness, but Diane Fahey's writing gives them the weight of centrality, of newly revealed depths both in the natural world and in human perceptiveness itself." Ross Gillett 

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1 1 y separately published work icon Glass Flowers Diane Fahey , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2021 23598572 2021 selected work poetry

'In Glass Flowers, Diane Fahey explores many kinds of space – the enclosed spaces of rooms, art galleries, hospital wards, prehistoric caves, the airy, flowing spaces of gardens, and the sky’s infinite life. Her intense engagement with the natural world moves in new directions, ‘as we approach the summer years’. While some poems convey the freedom of the present moment – imaged by the long glide of a kelp gull, ‘a yielding, shaping gesture’ – others invoke the uncanny, as in ‘Unearthly’ where clouds at sunset, photographed from a space station, send out into space ‘thousand-mile shadows / cutting through that cold radiance, / probing the void.’ Fahey also directs her gaze at various kinds of creativity – in particular, paintings that explore the inner life of rooms, and self-portraits built from ‘coils and surges of / colour incarnate’.' (Publication summary)
1 At the Solstice i "Days of the dragonfly, the cicada.", Diane Fahey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 1 August vol. 31 no. 15 2021;
1 A History of the Lotus i "For months, alluringly,", Diane Fahey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 1 August vol. 31 no. 15 2021;
1 Dancer i "Sometimes, time", Diane Fahey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 1 August vol. 31 no. 15 2021;
1 Blackout i "10 p.m.", Diane Fahey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 80 no. 1 2021;
1 Intensive Care : COVID-19 i "In the sealed unit,", Diane Fahey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 01 March vol. 31 no. 4 2021;
1 'St. Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow' by Masaccio i "Only Masaccio,", Diane Fahey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 01 March vol. 31 no. 4 2021;
1 Shadows Diane Fahey , 2021 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 01 March vol. 31 no. 4 2021;
1 In Half Light i "The tilt of an old-fashioned", Diane Fahey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , March no. 8 2021;
1 The Square i "A self-secluded man, he made no claims", Diane Fahey , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Montreal International Poetry Prize - 2020 Shortlist 2020;
1 The Black Cockatoos i "As if, surely,", Diane Fahey , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 96 2020;
1 Zen Morning i "I pace the drive, back and forth,", Diane Fahey , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 8 March vol. 30 no. 5 2020;
1 Sunday Morning At Cill Rialaig Artists' Retreat, Co. Kerry i "A roof-light of eight panes", Diane Fahey , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 8 March vol. 30 no. 5 2020;
1 [Untitled] Diane Fahey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal , no. 26 2019; (p. 16)
1 Shimmer i "Djotarra—mother, healer,", Diane Fahey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 33 no. 2 2019; (p. 262-264)
1 Autumn Begins i "As if the moon were my creature", Diane Fahey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 78 no. 4 2019; (p. 22)
1 Tawny Frogmouths i "Almost nose to beak", Diane Fahey , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2018;
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