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Moya Pacey Moya Pacey i(A3796 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Subject to Change Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry for the Planet : An Anthology of Imagined Futures 2021;
1 Birders Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry for the Planet : An Anthology of Imagined Futures 2021;
1 Child Pauses for a Photograph before Entering the Bomb Shelter i "Your seven-year-old face, clean, shiny,", Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 2 2021;
1 Whale Watchers i "The whales come in. Their failed wings flap, slap water like the midwife’s", Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 2 2021;
1 Winter Triolet i "When the world turns white", Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 2 2021;
1 St John’s Gate i "Named for John, patron saint of the sick,", Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 2 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Not Very Quiet : The Anthology Moya Pacey (editor), Sandra Renew (editor), Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2021 22004948 2021 anthology poetry

'Over the last five years, from the #Me Too Movement to same-sex marriage, from devastating bush fires to the global pandemic, the online poetry journal Not Very Quiet has dedicated itself to publishing women’s voices from across the globe. Not Very Quiet: The anthology selects poetry that has given voice to the social conscience of the community, constructions of lesbian and queer, the challenges posed to the social construction of gender, as well as the complexities and possibilities of the human condition.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 Stair Lift i "As I place a foot on the first step, I see him", Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
1 When I Play Mary in the Christmas Play i "I feel lost wearing my gymslip in the playground", Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
1 Fishing with Seamus i "Lured by the pull of your voice,", Moya Pacey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
1 1 y separately published work icon Doggerland Moya Pacey , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2020 20911137 2020 selected work poetry

'Doggerland is the name of a once fertile and populated land mass, now submerged under the North Sea, that once connected the British Isles with Europe. In the winter of 2017/18, Doggerland was clearly visible once again from the coast near the town where Moya Pacey was born and raised. In Pacey’s hands, this phenomenon works as a metaphor for how memory brings to the surface images, glimpses, stories, people and places appearing and disappearing, in no set order, around the space of this collection of poems.

'Doggerland revisits a time of post World War II northern England, replete with traditional norms and values, and darknesses waiting to emerge above the water of everyday life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 I Feel You Breathing i "Mam puts you into the cradle", Moya Pacey , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , September no. 7 2020;
1 Waiting Moya Pacey , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , March no. 6 2020;
1 Snow Flying i "Who knows how it started, his passion", Moya Pacey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 9 no. 2 2019;
1 The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 i "at school they say that when the bomb goes off, we have to get under", Moya Pacey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , April vol. 7 no. 1 2019; (p. 25)
1 At the Circus i "Don’t let the clowns choose me to go into the ring. They pretend to", Moya Pacey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , April vol. 7 no. 1 2019; (p. 24-25)
1 The Girl Who Said NO i "Her name was Patricia.", Moya Pacey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , March no. 4 2019;
1 Makeover i "Forgive the absence of your beloved ivy", Moya Pacey , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 65)
1 Lilacs i "Lilacs pungent", Moya Pacey , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 64)
1 Agapanthus i "We have colonised you with white", Moya Pacey , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 42)
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