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Rachael Mead Rachael Mead i(A101853 works by)
Gender: Female
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Rachael Mead has worked as an archaeologist, environmental campaigner, wedding decorator and bookshop manager. She holds an Honours degree in Classical Archaeology, a Masters in Environmental Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide.

As well as numerous individual poems published in a range of Australian periodicals, she has published two collections of her poetry: The Sixth Creek (2013) and The Quiet Blue World (2015).

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

The Bouncer and the Blood Clot 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: FourW New Writing , no. 30 2019; (p. 150-155)
2019 winner The Booranga Prize The Booranga Prize for Fiction
y separately published work icon The Flaw in the Pattern Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 2018 13858268 2018 selected work poetry

'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead’s poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with fragility and struggle. They don’t shy from the difficulties and sadness as well as joy in human kinship. Along the way Mead offers us a clear-eyed self-consciousness of the human within the larger places of the earth, in this case places such as Antarctica, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, Ikara–Flinders Ranges. The book offers us an embodied sense of secular ritual in its attentiveness and its use of form – lists, lyric iterations, admonitions - as the poet both argues and confides with herself and us, about the wild pleasures of earth’s physical and emotional topographies, and of our responsibilities within all this. A powerful and invigorating book of journeys well worth taking.

'JILL JONES' 

2016 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award as 'Vintage Rain'.
2016 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
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