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Shane Strange Shane Strange i(A76260 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Pike Shane Strange , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 Untitled Shane Strange , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 Bequest i "Did I abandon you like my father did to me and then my mother? If so, when did I do it?", Shane Strange , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 11 2022;
1 At the Lyneham Motor Inn with Gemma i "Unvarying, they hold us –the silent lines of streets. Cast stone onto stone. We have returned to", Shane Strange , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 11 2022;
1 Robert Linhart's Wife i "Theory frequently has the actual effect of killing the power to", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 39 no. 4 2020; (p. 59)
1 Face i "Water rolling down the face of", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 39 no. 4 2020; (p. 59)
1 Writing Rosa Luxemburg i "Rosa, the 6th astronaut on the moon died today.", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , April no. 17 2020;
1 Near Kyoto Station i "I carried my postcard to you in the rain and the words washed", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020; (p. 161)
1 y separately published work icon All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed Shane Strange , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2020 20909656 2020 selected work poetry

'Disquieting and deeply moving, Shane Strange’s debut collection inhabits a space that is somehow both intimate, and remote. All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed is marked by precise, pared back language, and immediate, hauntingly resonant imagery: we move through the space and places, the cities, the landscapes of these poems almost as we might move through a film, or a vividly remembered dream.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon The Incompleteness Book Julia Prendergast (editor), Shane Strange (editor), Jen Webb (editor), Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2020 20907647 2020 anthology poetry short story

'The Incompleteness Book is the result of a call for contributions to the theme: the incompleteness of human experience. The call was distributed in April 2020, amidst the global pandemic of COVID-19. The collection takes an interest in the relationship between the haunting incompleteness of human experience and short form writing. This, together with the unforeseen challenges of COVID-19, as well as the lure of coming together as writers, is the impetus for the book. The submissions are aimed at capturing our individual and collective experience as a composite picture. The contributions were collected in just nine days.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 1 LBG i "A hand is like the earth.", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 1 It Is Time i "Give me your hand and think about mountains.", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Links i "While the hills brown", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Land and Links : Poetic Connections between Kolkata/Jhargram and Canberr Jaydeep Sarangi , Shane Strange , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020; 'This collaborative engagement is corresponding poems between a Canberra-based poet, Shane Strange, and a Kolkata-based poet, Jaydeep Sarangi, which explores themes like local awareness, links with the land and natural resources, and reflections on thoughts and cultural aspects of life. Taking the social and linguistic background in both poets, these poems reflect on how we both communicate with the world poetically. We maintained some principles like dialoguing ourselves with another self, with another context of life, customs, values, histories and forces and functions of the society. We wanted to imagine each other as paired and partnered, one reflecting the other. Together, we unearthed many similarities in terms of the issues we deal with to make sense of the immediate and beyond. Even though we are way apart in geography, terra firma, culture and language our engagements with words unite us within a rare fabric of proximity of thought and tuning. Expressions and images link, and bind us together.' (Publication abstract)
1 Marker 108 i "What I remember now might be", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 32-33)
1 y separately published work icon No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast Paul Munden (editor), Alvin Pang (editor), Shane Strange (editor), Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2020 19691704 2020 anthology poetry

'On 18 April, 1930, at 8.45pm, the BBC announced: ‘There is no news.’ Piano music played for the rest of the 15-minute bulletin.

'So the story goes.

'90 poets from across the world reflect on a this marker of a time before the 24-hour news cycle, before the ubiquity of news and information that seems to haunt us through our daily lives. Through this anthology there are poems that capture that moment of nothing but piano music making up an evening news bulletin, poems that contrast this with today’s news, and personal stories grounded in the intervening years.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)
1 Traps for the Newly Relocated i "It’s great to be here. The birds sing", Shane Strange , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
1 y separately published work icon Giant Steps : Fifty Poets Reflect on the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Beyond Paul Munden (editor), Shane Strange (editor), Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2019 16976303 2019 anthology poetry

'On 21 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on the moon, uttering those famous words: ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’ To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, 50 poets from around the world were asked to reflect upon the achievement of Apollo 11 and our constantly evolving notions of ‘space’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Space Invaders i "In my mother's corner store, where a burst bottle cut", Shane Strange , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 12-13)
1 y separately published work icon Abstractions Paul Munden (editor), Shane Strange (editor), Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2018 14704499 2018 anthology poetry

'In Abstractions, 10 poets were tasked with addressing each of 10 abstractions: Conjecture, Obligation, Nonsense, Space, Pleasure, Identity, Rhythm, Accuracy, Cost, and Youth.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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