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1 Commence Transmission : Storytelling in a Time of Upheaval Georgina Woods , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 81 no. 2 2022; (p. 183-189) Meanjin Online 2022; 'Let's begin with the observation that evolution and culture exhibit a common pattern: descent with modification. The analogies have been made before. T.S. Eliot conceived the poetic tradition as an organism, a 'living whole' passed on and changed as each generation reads the poets who came before. Transmission is at once the technique of recurrence and the process of change. The miraculous variety of life on Earth has been created over millions of years by a still-mysterious cellular urge to replicate, repeated in organisms, generation after generation. Homer's replicated epithets enabled the transmission of The Odyssey over centuries. A circle of children reciting a growing list of items they went to the shop to buy or singing nursery rhymes hone these skills. Transmission, however, is more than mere duplication. Reproducing proteins are an engine of evolutionary transmission, but transmission also requires creativity.' (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon The Tide Will Take It Georgina Woods , Waratah : Puncher and Wattmann , 2022 23816405 2022 selected work poetry

'This collection of poems is both celebration and elegy, paying homage to the everyday beauty of the natural world and documenting and protesting its degradation and neglect. The poems move through distinct threads: poems of ocean and river; poems that draw insight from or give voice to birds and animals; and poems that tell or retell the experiences of real or mythical women. Activist though they are, the poems in this collection avoid the didactic register. They speak instead through many voices: news reports, bird song, other poets, even the tide itself, with an urgency, tenderness and optimism.' (Publication summary)
1 Sand Whiting i "A thing dropped", Georgina Woods , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 August no. 92 2019;
1 Sky News and Compost : David Malouf’s An Open Book Georgina Woods , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2019;

'The Tao master Zhuangzi proverbially dreamed he was a butterfly, flitting and feeling truly a butterfly as he went. Upon awakening, he was no longer able to discern whether he had been a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or was a butterfly now dreaming he was a man.' (Introduction)
1 Smashing it All to Pieces and Bringing it All Back i "Aquila audux folds its umber wings with", Georgina Woods , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 5 no. 2 2018;
1 Fluid Dynamics i "a squatting bater bead with yocic", Georgina Woods , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 68-69)
1 Paradise Losing i "Le paradis n’est pas artificiel,", Georgina Woods , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 220 2015; (p. 75)
1 Death by Water, Circa 21C i "Three percent every year overwhelms the sky", Georgina Woods , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 31 no. 1 2012; (p. 35)
1 Silence Mediates : An Intermittent Biography of Margaret Cavendish, First Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-73. i "There is an eerie symmetry to this courtyard,", Georgina Woods , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Unfamiliar Tides : The Newcastle Poetry Prize 2001/2002 2002;
1 To Wollombi i "water comes to Wollombi.", Georgina Woods , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 21 no. 1 2002; (p. 48)
1 Moth i "Dumb and blind like a night creature,", Georgina Woods , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetrix , November no. 17 2001; (p. 2)
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