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Writing name for: Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
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1 Interrupted i "Artist(s): Mother and three-year-old child. Materials: Ink and white-out on book page of Susanna", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 First Blood : A Sestina i "There was a time when the girl", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Your Hands 2020; (p. 80)
1 On Day One, We Will Begin Working Natalie D-Napoleon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 My Mother on Astronomy Natalie D-Napoleon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 132)
1 Definition : Wog (n); a Thing i "A wog is a word for a thing", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 69 2020; (p. 28-29)
1 Papercuts i "Papercut on my tongue, the metallic taste of bro-", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: I Protest! Poems of Dissent 2020; (p. 100)
1 O the Celestial Objects i "brighter celestial objects", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writ Poetry Review , February no. 4 2020;
1 Night-blooming Cereus Natalie D-Napoleon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 95 2020; Author's note: After the Sally Mann photograph “Night-blooming Cereus, 1988”
1 Meet Me Under the Mulberry Tree Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'Amour 2019 : Love Poems 2019;
1 Woman i "we weep for you when you die in your wars.", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mountain Secrets 2019; (p. 73)
1 Black Swan i "I pluck from my", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 24 2019;
1 2 y separately published work icon First Blood Natalie D-Napoleon , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2019 17525158 2019 selected work poetry 'In First Blood, Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize winner Natalie D-Napoleon brings us a collection of poems that challenge our preconceptions of girlhood. Girls are sung about the world over, yet the selfhood of girls remains unknown: ‘her body was not hers, a stitch / of animal, a pinch of dirt, a girl / is made of words plus liquid minus time’. The daughter of Croatian immigrant farmers, D-Napoleon stitches together this debut collection of poems-as-memoir into a web of poems both created and found. The poems in First Blood explore our sense of belonging, confronting the bodily, visceral, antediluvian connections that we share with our homelands: ‘I am a seedling / plucked from my mother’s womb / …transplanted into the sand’.The fractured, post-colonial world of the poet’s rural Western Australian childhood is found in her formal explorations of the sestina, pantoum and sonnet, a dissimilitude that sits beside erasure poetry, free verse and random text generation. Between carrots and dust, short skirts and books, the poet unlearns herself and the stories of girls, forgotten and unseen, exploring the dreams countless generations have sown into the land – the zemlja – and how this legacy impacts upon the mythic creation and destruction of girlhood.' (Publication summary)
1 Syzygy i "You play the spoons on your thigh, I play", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 6 2019;
1 Careful i "Squid ink risotto dark as the depths of the Mediterranean Sea; handmade gnocchi", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Multilingual Writing Project , May no. 2 2019;
1 Crossing Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 78 no. 1 2019; (p. 164-169)

'It all started with a question I should never have asked. 'So, do you have sexual fantasies?' 

'I was thinking about how we'd both been reading Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden, popular once again now in the post-AIDSis- going-to-kill-us-all nineties, and how liberating it was to share fantasies that were once thought to be taboo.' (Publication abstract)
1 Pioneer Day i "Once I was a wilderness,", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Landscapes , vol. 9 no. 1 2019;
1 Zemlja i "I am the coloniser and", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Landscapes , vol. 9 no. 1 2019;
1 The Peppermint Tree i "When I was a child how I loved, how I loved, how I loved a tree,", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Creatrix , September no. 42 2018;
1 Your Mother Says It Was the Books i "Your mother says it was the books", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 44 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 145-146)
1 Tell a Story i "Tell a story", Natalie D-Napoleon , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 44 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 144)
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