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Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon I Am the Glass Penny Drysdale , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2021 20909502 2021 selected work poetry

'I am the glass

with all this inside

my transparent walls

the sun

the moon

the bubbles

all this intoxication'

'Penny Drysdale invites readers into her home and her transience as her relationship begins to end.  It is never easy to get on with your life.  I am the glass is window into these tender invisible journeys.'

Source : publisher's blurb
1 1 y separately published work icon Arelhekenhe Angkentye – Women’s Talk : Poems of Lyapirtneme from Arrernte Women in Central Australia Penny Drysdale (editor), Alice Springs : Ptilotus Press , 2020 21183420 2020 anthology poetry
1 Looking for Edges i "dragonflies hover over", Penny Drysdale , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Borderlands , November no. 1 2019;
1 Little Sticks i "little sticks have fallen", Penny Drysdale , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Borderlands , November no. 1 2019;
1 Darwin (A Prelude) i "today I bought yellow cushions to slash", Penny Drysdale , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2019; (p. 94-95)
1 1 y separately published work icon Dew and Broken Glass Penny Drysdale , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2017 11521305 2017 selected work poetry

'Set in the heart of Australia, Penny Drysdale’s debut collection  breaks open the prison of self to lay bare the many contradictions in contemporary Australian relationships.  Love, injustice and ‘unbelonging’ weave their way through this torrid landscape like ancient creatures on a grand scale.  A credit card, a mouse trap, a discarded car battery, a pile of children’s clothing all become an opportunity to examine in harsh Australian light aspects of ourselves we usually confine to the dark. ' (Publication Summary)
1 Territory Night i "gunfire and", Penny Drysdale , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2015; (p. 84-86)
1 The Light Is Not like Buttermilk i "it is a relentless", Penny Drysdale , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2015; (p. 82-83)
1 This Wind i "it is the only thing we have", Penny Drysdale , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Disappearing 2012;
1 Fallen i "Out here we say What? to each other", Penny Drysdale , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Northern Territory Literary Awards 2011 2011; (p. 54-58)
1 The Oven i "there's a family living in my oven||you can watch them through", Penny Drysdale , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verandah , no. 25 2010; (p. 38)
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