AustLit

'Shebird is the woman or girl who wears the shroud of widows, guards the new grave, tastes gun, is paid two dollars a day or not paid at all. She is the child factory worker, the blackbird changing shadows, or the poet pondering black dogs and ravens or becoming the fox with mist on her breath.

In just a few words or lines Lizz Murphy cuts to the quick of a social issue or vividly captures a passing moment.' (Publication summary)