AustLit logo
Sophie Curzon-Siggers Sophie Curzon-Siggers i(A150072 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 The Underground of Light i "forget the blazing", Sophie Curzon-Siggers , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 1 2017; (p. 78)
1 Ancestor Worship Sophie Curzon-Siggers , 2017 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 76 no. 3 2017; (p. 70-76)

'The ocean’s benevolence raised me; not fishes hauled and eaten in abundance, but its great iconoclast, the whale. This custody was devised by two parents finally decisive about their irrevocable differences, that the Southern Ocean and the Victorian plains do not cohabit. My mother would never declare ‘I am a whale’ as I declared ‘I am a seal’. Her name’s meaning, ‘dark stranger’, is an internalised marker. A name in vogue in the late 1950s, but maybe even at one day old, they perceived her as foreign. If we tend towards the souls of things, then the bookshelf of hardback children’s books, all solemnly illustrated, belies her name. Inevitably they spoke of songs from the great enigma and great comforter, a cappella from the depths of constant night. Before I could read these for myself, my mother thought she’d given birth to an angel. My wings had been misplaced, so on photos and a Chagall collage she drew them in pastel.' (Introduction)

1 Poetry Kool-Aid i "the immature poet(ess)", Sophie Curzon-Siggers , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 57 2017;
1 Liberty’s Rabbit i "so intercessions rug", Sophie Curzon-Siggers , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 75 no. 1 2015;
1 Mourning Takes Me in Red i "makes me wade through the lake poured", Sophie Curzon-Siggers , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 131)
1 Selkie Child i "maybe she was pulled", Sophie Curzon-Siggers , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Regime , no. 1 2012; (p. 76-78)
X