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Helga Jermy Helga Jermy i(A150071 works by)
Born: Established:
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Little Bones in Red Clay Helga Jermy , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 25497905 2022 selected work poetry 'Little bones in red clay is an unearthing: a small and personal quest to discover why we pursue the things we do – why we migrate, why art matters, how political dialogue sparks our veins, how love of landscape makes us tread carefully but awkwardly. Helga Jermy’s poems explore identity and place at the interface of global fragility, testing light and dark, and the persistence of play.' (Publication summary)  
1 Where the Stare Nests i "consider the starling:", Helga Jermy , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 164 2022; (p. 63)
1 Swimming above the Belly of the Earth i "Suppose I was a wave and the gulls’ feet", Helga Jermy , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020-2021; (p. 75)
1 A Poem with Neeles in It i "a woman is arrested", Helga Jermy , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: I Protest! Poems of Dissent 2020; (p. 120)
1 Minor Domestic Emergencies i "on condition of anonymity the glass breaks its silence. little", Helga Jermy , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019; Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 171)
1 Double/Back Full-Full-Full i "the Olympus 12 would have been of proud-", Helga Jermy , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 25 2018; (p. 52-53)
1 Bloom and Boom i "he pours a drink as we look out on a Kyoto", Helga Jermy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 2 2017; (p. 45)
1 y separately published work icon Firebird Baltic Blue Helga Jermy , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2017 12335900 2017 selected work poetry

'Being denied access to a place by necessity you invent it. In these poems, the author explores cultural identity and loss as the daughter of an Estonian dislocated from his family and country by post-war turmoil. Based on fractured truths, fairy tales and longings, this collection is a personal mosaic of a land and her place in it.
Helga Jermy’s poems have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets 2015 and long-listed for the UK National Poetry Prize 2016.' (Publication Summary) 
1 6 Equal Pieces i "Two gulls squawk and defecate", Helga Jermy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November vol. 83 no. 2017;
1 Flood Proof i "The flood passes me by", Helga Jermy , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2016; (p. 79) Wild 2018; (p. 133)
1 Three Synchyses in a Single Malt i "In a corner booth", Helga Jermy , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2016; (p. 34-36)
1 Talk i "To hear her talk", Helga Jermy , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 115)
1 The Poppy Pickers i "They're bent over in fluoro like poppies soaked in rain", Helga Jermy , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 108)
1 Charles Rennie Mackintosh i "Can you hold a life in a portfolio?", Helga Jermy , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2015; (p. 58-60)
1 Saaremaa i "I steal your stories", Helga Jermy , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Members Anthology 2014; (p. 28)
1 Sudden Shower Over Ulverstone Bridge i "As I bend in those lines of sleet, hold the fragile skeleton.................", Helga Jermy , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Regime , no. 4 2014; (p. 46)
1 In Line i "If I stand here", Helga Jermy , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 46.1 2014;
1 Jury Duty i "We're through voir dire,", Helga Jermy , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Regime , no. 2 2013; (p. 127)
1 Night Music i "It is 2am. I wake to the screech", Helga Jermy , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , Winter no. 9 2013; (p. 53-54)
1 Jog i "You're out for some air", Helga Jermy , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , Winter no. 9 2013; (p. 51)
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