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Michelle Cahill Michelle Cahill i(A5849 works by)
Also writes as: Michelle Carter
Born: Established: 1964 ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Indian
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1 Desire i "The leafless arms of coral trees", Michelle Carter , single work poetry
1 A Spectral Presence Michelle Cahill , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 170 2024; (p. 56-61)
1 Coetzee's Australian Michelle Cahill , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee 2023; (p. 373-386)
1 Beyond the Cosmopolitan : Small Dangerous Fragments Michelle Cahill , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 243-257)

'Whereas much scholarship still associates migrant fiction in Australia with social or documentary realism, this chapter emphasizes its playful, iconoclastic, and experimental qualities. It questions the conventional long form as a closed, stable narration that relies on summation and style. Instead it turns to short fiction, examining writers such as Tom Cho, Nicholas Jose, and Melanie Cheng who operate as transnational, experimental, and decolonial forces in Australian writing.' (Publication abstract)

1 Later, Dusk Michelle Cahill , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Line in the Sand 2023;
1 Icarus in the Gloaming i "i cannot deny the sky was alluring as Instagram", Michelle Cahill , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 109 2023;
1 1 Field Notes for an Albatross Palimpsest i "Oils, ochre, feather, flower, leaf, cliff, hailstone, storm, spume, wreck, wind wrack", Michelle Cahill , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 450 2023; (p. 44-45)
1 Surfacing Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 176)
1 Mangroves i "We hear their voices echo across the estuary", Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;
1 The Art of a Pause i "The way you leave me on read, or how in the bar I miss", Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Spring no. 3 2022;
1 What It Means to Thirst i "At Bogabri, I stop for a cappuccino and pie", Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Spring no. 3 2022;
1 Mouthing i "Then, there were those moments lasting hours when your lips quaked, mouthing tiny carcasses,", Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Spring no. 3 2022;
1 The Pale and Delicate Petals i "Dismounting her rhetorical horse, she accepts the realpolitik", Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Spring no. 3 2022;
1 Distractions at Cave Rock i "After the city we drive to a cabin in Lamington National Park,", Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Spring no. 3 2022;
1 And, I Think to Myself What a Wonderful World i "damaged like the stumps of burned trees", Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 Daisy and Woolf : An Extract Michelle Cahill , 2022 extract novel (Daisy and Woolf)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , April 2022;
1 11 y separately published work icon Daisy and Woolf Michelle Cahill , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2022 23805770 2022 single work novel

''This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as I sit at my writing bureau ... it is a soothing sound.'

'Mina, a writer, is navigating her place in the world, balancing creativity, academia, her sexuality and the expectation that a wife and mother abandons herself for others. For her, like so many women of mixed ancestry, it is too easy to be erased. But her fire and intellect refuse to bow. She discovers 'the dark, adorable' Eurasian woman Daisy Simmons, whom Peter Walsh plans to marry in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Daisy disappeared from Woolf's pages, her story unfinished - never given a voice in the novel, nor a footnote in any of the admiring Woolf scholarship that followed.

While dealing with the remains of another life, Mina decides to write Daisy's story. Travelling from Australia to England, India and China, freelancing and researching, she has to navigate cultural and race barriers, trying hard not to look back or flinch at the personal cost. Like Woolf, her writing both sustains and overwhelms her. But in releasing Daisy from her fictional destiny, Mina finds the stubbornness and strength to also break free.' (Publication summary)

1 Variations After Vallejo, and Donald Justice i "I will die in HTML on a cloudless autumn night, a night when", Michelle Cahill , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 205)
1 Friday, Victor Harbor i "Streetlights are hunched sentinels spilling their orange glow", Michelle Cahill , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 10-16 April 2021;
1 Epiphany i "As it rose for the Magi, a pink flush through the gum trees", Michelle Cahill , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 10-16 April 2021;
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