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Holly Isemonger Holly Isemonger i(9486717 works by)
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'Holly Isemonger lives in Sydney. She has been published in Shabby Doll House, Voiceworks, Clinic, and Seizure. Her writing has been featured in exhibitions for SPUR Publication at Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh and Tate Britain. She is assistant editor at The Bohemyth and studies at Western Sydney University.' (Source : Overland website)

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y separately published work icon Greatest Hit Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2023 25518131 2023 selected work poetry

'In her long-awaited debut collection, Holly Isemonger, engages, pulls apart, and ingeniously reassembles our language to surprising, ingenious ends. Despite the formal innovation there is nothing cold or dry about this collection: it is funny and sad, biting and wrenching, immediate and tender. These poems are excursions which incorporate both the communal and the deeply personal. If they are ‘experimental’, then they are experiments from the heart. Isemonger’s work is irreverent, never boring, always buffered by exquisite sensibility, style and form. Greatest Hit is a stunning and highly anticipated debut by the winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2022-2023 shortlisted Five Islands Press Prize
OK Cupid i "A man who ‘writes’ messages me on OkCupid saying he won’t read other authors,", 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 226 2017; (p. 31) Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 94) Judges Report : Holly Isemonger’s ‘OK cupid’, the other equal first-place prizewinner, is a dark, post-digital love poem in which the words of three stanzas are recombined to tell a warped tale about the split-second decisions one makes in the world of online dating. The poem could be seen as a nocturne: the words rotate almost musically, but the recombinations also deconstruct the events within the poem. ‘OK cupid’ shows how repetition is really, in Gertrude Stein’s sense, insistence.
2016 joint winner The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
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