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Jill McKeowen Jill McKeowen i(12877140 works by)
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1 1 y separately published work icon Sunday Morning, Here Jill McKeowen , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 25822737 2023 selected work poetry 'Sunday Morning, Here is Jill McKeowen’s first collection of poetry, articulating an acceptance of impermanence and loss, and consequent arrival at a sense of identity and place. Moving from teenage years beside the “lapis-lazuli ocean” of the Central Coast of NSW to a last home in a post-industrial suburb of Newcastle, the poems record the details of very Australian lives, troublingly settled on “deeply storied ground” but blessed by childhood memories of a family with love behind its purpose (always). Beside an awareness of war and damage elsewhere, they celebrate the transfiguring possibilities of the everyday: the layers of the past in an old Swan teapot; the bits and pieces left in a dead father’s shed; the “pilgrimage of woodsmoke to the stars.' (Publication summary) 
1 Winter Sister i "Back then we belonged", Jill McKeowen , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ear to Earth : An Anthology of Australian Poetry 2017 2017; (p. 28)
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