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Margaret Bradstock Margaret Bradstock i(A20817 works by) (a.k.a. E. M. Bradstock; Eleanor Margaret Bradstock)
Born: Established: 1942 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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The Lesbian Silk-Spinners of Shunde County Margaret Bradstock , sequence poetry
1 The Trajectory of a Life : Margaret Bradstock Reviews ‘But Now’ by Phyllis Perlstone Margaret Bradstock , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;

— Review of But Now Phyllis Perlstone , 2022 selected work poetry

'Phyllis Perlstone’s most recent poetry collection, But Now, celebrates the trajectory of a life. The preface alerts us to the scenario we are about to enter, from the time of the second world war, through the Great Depression, to a life-style in modern-day Barangaroo. Perlstone’s forte is meticulous description, metaphors built from the surrounding environment, each moment expanded to its limits.' (Introduction)

1 Winter Beach i "Mirrored clouds and a turncoat wind", Margaret Bradstock , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 11 no. 2 2023; (p. 29)
1 The Significance of Rain : Margaret Bradstock Reviews ‘Swimmer in the Dust’ by Ross Gillett Margaret Bradstock , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 37 no. 2 2023;

— Review of Swimmer in the Dust Ross Gillett , 2022 selected work poetry

'The opening poem in this collection, ‘Ash Wednesday Windows’, provides an introduction to the kind of poetic journey we are about to embark on. After a fire, perhaps bushfire, the windows, almost personified, “lay on their backs beside the dirt driveway/ waiting for walls.” The onlooker sees soil, weeds, singed grass, “the only views he’d ever see through them”, and the poet leaves him “patrolling the melted windows,/ checking the shifts in perspective, the small distortions.” Gillett’s spare but loaded descriptions leave it to the reader to imagine the conflagration , the sense of loss and waste.' (Introduction)

1 Making Tracks i "Her father walked across the African desert", Margaret Bradstock , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 1 2022; (p. 54)
1 The Ford i "Witness is what you must bear,", Margaret Bradstock , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 60-61)
1 Winter Crow i "Lockdown, an empty beach", Margaret Bradstock , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 Before Our Earth Falls Silent Margaret Bradstock , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry for the Planet : An Anthology of Imagined Futures 2021;
1 Angio Scan i "You wake to Beta blockers,", Margaret Bradstock , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 31 2020; (p. 20-21)
1 Waiting for the Byron Train i "Waiting on the southbound platform", Margaret Bradstock , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 96 2020; Australian Poetry Anthology 2020-2021; (p. 146)
1 Mountains of the Mind i "The mountains swarming", Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters : Volume Two , December 2019;
1 The Grieving i "Staid city of churches, now also mosques,", Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters : Volume Two , December 2019;
1 Living Statues i "I could be silver, I could be gold", Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters : Volume Two , December 2019;
1 The Promised Land i "You saw them from Sunderland Beach", Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mountain Secrets 2019; (p. 82)
1 Barangaroo and the Eora Fisherwoman i "Ahh...we were fisherwomen", Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heroines : An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry Volume 2 2019; (p. 101-102)
1 Joanne Burns, Apparently Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 182-186)

— Review of Apparently Joanne Burns , 2019 selected work poetry
'joanne burns is regarded as Australia’s pre-eminent satirical poet, known for humour and wordplay in her confrontation with modern society and its clichés. apparently is her 17th collection, no less quizzical and hard-hitting than its predecessors. At the same time, it goes deeper, interrogating the creative principle and the provenance of individual poems. The book’s title is expressive of the nature of its contents, which “appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real.” burns divides these experiences into four distinct sections.' (Introduction)
1 Margaret Bradstock Reviews Phyllis Perlstone’s The Bruise of Knowing Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 93 2019;

— Review of The Bruise of Knowing Phyllis Perlstone , 2019 selected work poetry

'The Bruise of Knowing is Phyllis Perlstone’s third collection of poetry from Puncher & Wattmann, and arguably her best to date. It tells the story of Sir John Monash, highlighting themes of ambition, power and warfare. A talented engineer and commander, Monash’s progress was conflicted by religious bigotry, the rise of feminism, and a growing awareness within himself of the devastation wrought by war. But this is not just history, although the Australia and Britain of Monash’s lifetime are vividly recreated. Perlstone selects revealing episodes of strength and weakness in her protagonist, interpreted through poetic devices that allow the reader to experience undercurrents well beyond the series of events. At the same time, this anecdote is counterpointed with several parenthetic poems drawing the writer-researcher into the framework and underlining current concerns with the encroachment of the built environment on the natural.' (Introduction)

1 Vigorous and Compelling : Margaret Bradstock Launches ‘Belief’ by Les Wicks Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 26 2019;

— Review of Belief Les Wicks , 2019 selected work poetry

'Les Wicks has done it again. Belief is his 14th poetry collection. He says he aims to bring a book out every three years, and has continued to do so, without, need I say, any loss in quality. I can’t pretend to understand every word or poem he writes, but nothing valuable is achieved without effort. To me it’s sometimes like doing a cryptic crossword − all the clues are there, a plethora of images suggest answers, and suddenly you’ve got it. A few wines or whiskeys along the way may, or may not, help. Sometimes it’s more productive to Google the more erudite references.' (Introduction)

1 2 y separately published work icon Brief Garden Margaret Bradstock , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2019 15840374 2019 selected work poetry

'Like its precursor Barnacle Rock, Brief Garden is a collection of poems largely concerned with environmental degeneration and loss. The title poem deals with the ephemeral nature of a civilisation and its artefacts, but the focus of the collection goes deeper, playing on the word “brief”, the vanishing of an Edenic garden. Today, our world is further threatened by anthropogenic climate change, oil-mining assaults on natural wonders, flora and fauna, and by continued government intervention into the preservation of heritage buildings and sites. The land tended by Australia’s first inhabitants for 60,000 years is now under siege. In these beautifully crafted and researched poems, voices from the past and present remind readers of what has been taken away.'  (Publication summary)

1 The Sealers, Preservation Island i "By what irony was this island", Margaret Bradstock , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , February 2018;
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