Born: Established: 1953 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Affiliation Notes
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NT affiliation added because of note in TERRA, p. 398 that says 'Meg Mooney's writing focuses on country and communities around Alice Springs, where she has lived for 20 years.' [i.e. since circa 1987] [MJ 30/07/08]
Personal Awards
- 2022 shortlisted Northern Territory Literary Awards — Poetry Award for 'Leaving Ikuntji'.
- 2010 winner Byron Bay Poetry Festival Picaro Poetry Award
Awards for Works
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y
Being Martha’s Friend
Warners Bay
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Picaro Press
,
2015
8714493
2015
selected work
poetry
'‘These poems about friendship and belonging – I’ve had them with me for just two weeks and yet I feel as much at home with them as with friends I’ve known all my life. Meg Mooney has the language to speak of silences and centres – and of breathing and heartbeats, the odd fact that one keeps growing older – and of country and time and how to listen to them. Like your other wise and wry and gentle books Meg, this one’s permanent.’ – Peter Bishop
‘Honest, generous, wise and funny, Meg Mooney’s poems bring you straight into the gritty, idiosyncratic daily experience of life in central Australia.’ – Jansis O’Hanlon, Chief Executive Officer, Varuna, the National Writers’ House ' (Publication summary)
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