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1 Tamborine Mountain Poems – Lost Poems Found Janis Bailey , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 32 no. 2 2021;

'A sense of anticipation stirs. I sit with a large archive box marked ‘Vallis’ at a wide wooden desk in the University of Queensland’s Fryer Library. Other boxes await. I lift the box’s lid.' (Introduction)
1 Hearts Ablaze : The Tamborine Years of Judith Wright and Jack McKinney Janis Bailey , 2015 single work drama

'Hearts Ablaze is a rehearsed reading based on the letter sent between Wright and her partner Jack McKinney while she lived on Tamborine Mountain.' (Production summary)
1 Untitled Janis Bailey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Queensland Journal of Labour History , September no. 11 2010; (p. 45-47)
— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
1 Mending Matters : Reflections and Flights of Fantasy Prompted by 100 Years of Women's Suffrage Janis Bailey , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , vol. 13 no. 1 2006; (p. 103)
— Review of Mending Matters : Reflections and Flights of Fantasy Prompted by 100 Years of Women's Suffrage 2005 anthology prose

'This is a beautifully produced piece of 'community writing', published by the State Library of Queensland to celebrate a century of (white) women's suffrage, and the scant 40 years of Indigenous suffrage.

The book comprises two threads. One is a series of five commissioned essays; the other is a daisy chain of quotes from short pieces that a variety of Queensland women wrote in response to a call to imagine what life would be like for women. in 50 years' time. There are some engaging cartoons on women's suffrage from The Worker and The Australian Women's Sphere. The book is beautifully designed, with a dreamlike cover based on an artwork by Caitlin Reid.' (Introduction)
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