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Born: Established: 1975 Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 The Bees Claire Potter , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 14)
1 2 y separately published work icon Acanthus Claire Potter , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2022 23624102 2022 selected work poetry

'A new collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia’s richest lyrical poets

'Acanthus offers a collection of poems that dwell in the landscapes of the northern and southern hemispheres, evoking myth and fantasy and romance, as they move between observation and imagination. At the heart of Potter’s poetry is a keen awareness of the power of transformation, which brings the celestial and the physical, the imagined and the real closer to hand.The poems hold an ear to those wandering figures who, like Icarus, search the peripheries of those adjoining worlds for a way through, but instead often fall against the clockwork of the ordinary. Surreal gardens, repetitive geometry, rooms of clouds, witches and monsters, lie not outside the natural world but directly within it, mixing poetry and quotation, dream with prose. Each poem coexist at an angle to the next, sitting as if within the net of a wider page, seeking to embody the dramatic sense of reading and of falling right through its spaces.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 After Chopin i "Out from elms, floating and rising, shrouds of dust play across the sand. There’s", Claire Potter , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;
1 The Appeal of Cranes i "wing opportunity", Claire Potter , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry 2017;
1 Three Steps Outside the TAB i "Pale steps, concrete and absolute", Claire Potter , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 21 2017;
1 The Copper Beech i "I lie you down, spread your branches wide as wings across the grass", Claire Potter , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 21 2017;
1 Beneath Parliament Hill i "Alone, drawn dark as a stick", Claire Potter , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 62 no. 1 2017; (p. 182-183)
1 The Art of Sideways i "Northern hemisphere it’s almost Christmas.", Claire Potter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry , May 2016; (p. 130)
1 Weeping Foxes i "You told, or rather warned me, that the foxes would start mating", Claire Potter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2016 2016; (p. 148)
1 The Hidden Side to Love i "All summer, the bees worked between bells of laburnum", Claire Potter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 75 no. 4 2016; (p. 131) Meanjin Online 2016; The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 130-131)
1 A Dream, London, November 24 Claire Potter , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 146 2016; (p. 98)
1 A Song in Paris Claire Potter , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Recoil Six : A Selection of Poems by Guests Featured at the Perth Poetry Club in 2014 2015;
1 An Asra Bird Claire Potter , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: 诗林 , vol. 171 no. 4 2014;
1 Flower of Industry i "lamplight faded as inkless tattoo", Claire Potter , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Outcrop : Radical Australian Poetry of Land 2013; (p. 129)
1 As Regarding Rhythm i "A mechanical wing strums", Claire Potter , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Outcrop : Radical Australian Poetry of Land 2013; (p. 126-127)
1 Ilya i "There was a bench where I sat reading Virgil", Claire Potter , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Outcrop : Radical Australian Poetry of Land 2013; (p. 123)
1 Greenhouse i "There are afternoons", Claire Potter , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Outcrop : Radical Australian Poetry of Land 2013; (p. 121)
1 The Birthday i "I opened a tulip, once, closed and unready", Claire Potter , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 28 December 2013; (p. 24)
1 Empty Greenhouse Claire Potter , Yu Ouyang (translator), 2013 single work
— Appears in: 读诗 , no. 3 2013; 诗林 , vol. 171 no. 4 2014;
2 Room of Clouds i "The years plot vagrancy in delicate terms", Claire Potter , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2012 2012; (p. 51)

— Appears in: 读诗 , no. 3 2013; 诗林 , vol. 171 no. 4 2014;
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