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Petra White Petra White i(A69887 works by) (a.k.a. Petra White-Matthews; Petra White Matthews)
Born: Established: 1975 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Elegy (11) i "Nobody to blame or forgive", Petra White , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 96-98)
1 Elegy (12) i "Time undergone, time freshening", Petra White , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 68 no. 1 2023; (p. 175)
1 Journal in March i "I write in haste, as if on the jut of the future,", Petra White , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 109 2023;
1 Journal in August i "In the Spielplatz, children running in circles", Petra White , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023; Meanjin , Autumn vol. 82 no. 1 2023; (p. 66)
1 Elegy (4) i "Remember the sea", Petra White , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29 October 2022; (p. 18)
1 Mother on Men i "Mother what is a man?", Petra White , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 142)
1 Journal in May : Berlin 2021 i "On unaccustomed feet we enter the Spring.", Petra White , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , September / Spring vol. 80 no. 3 2021; (p. 34-35)
1 Elegy i "Hard to keep an empty chair at the table where together we scoff", Petra White , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 163 2021; (p. 27)
1 The Month of April i "The person feels still the weight", Petra White , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 40 no. 1 2021; (p. 54)
1 The Claimant i "Dear Robot I have had another dream.", Petra White , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 40 no. 1 2021; (p. 47)
1 Journal in October London 2020 i "Under the stream of voices", Petra White , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 34-35)
1 4 y separately published work icon Cities Petra White , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2021 21865029 2021 selected work poetry 'Cities makes playful and lyrical incursions into myth to explore the nature of grief for a mother while becoming a mother, and the difficulties of love, ranging from the extended sequence Persephone at 40 to a piercing series of poems about the death of White’s mother. A series of fragmentary ‘journal’ poems spanning from London to Berlin, arises in part from the tensions and strangeness of prolonged lockdown in both cities.' 

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1 Working from Home i "In the soft realm of home,", Petra White , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 138)
1 The Ocean i "This pale, ongoing ocean, silent at her door,", Petra White , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , December 2020;
1 Autumn Leaves i "He filled my stone cold flat with Autumn leaves.", Petra White , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Blue Nib [Online] , December 2020;
1 To My Mother’s Ghost i "Even if you were down there in the underworld,", Petra White , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 1 2020; (p. 71)
1 Misery i "Happiness, they say, is an outward duty,", Petra White , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: PN Review , September / October vol. 46 no. 1 2019;
1 Marriage i "Our babe is born, her brow yours,", Petra White , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: PN Review , September / October vol. 46 no. 1 2019;
1 The Panther i "The sleek black bars have paced about his eye-zone", Petra White , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 5 no. 1 2017; (p. 144)
1 The Prodigal Son i "Now to step from all this,", Petra White , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 5 no. 1 2017; (p. 142-143)
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