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1 At Home i "I open the front door, smell the familiar woody aroma of home, feel warmth enveloping me. Home is a place", Rachael Wenona Guy , Heather Taylor Johnson , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 At Home i "I am couch-sprawled, pinch of lower back and hips because I twist my body outlandishly, a comfort that’s", Heather Taylor Johnson , Rachael Wenona Guy , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 At the Supermarket i "I have avoided supermarkets for three months now. The physio says it is very normal for people in my", Rachael Wenona Guy , Heather Taylor Johnson , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 At the Butcher i "I have three children, fair, pale and risen lean, and I’m always buying chicken, what it means to be a mother", Heather Taylor Johnson , Rachael Wenona Guy , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 In the Car i "Today I can drive. Yesterday I could not. The steering wheel in my hands is warm as victory. Driving can", Rachael Wenona Guy , Heather Taylor Johnson , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 On the Train i "I’m sitting on a blue seat, two red ones in front of me and a sign above them illustrating what priority seating", Heather Taylor Johnson , Rachael Wenona Guy , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 My Raucous, Singing Ear Rachael Wenona Guy , Heather Taylor Johnson , 2022 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 y separately published work icon The Hungry Air Rachael Wenona Guy , Hobart : Walleah Press , 2020 23847237 2020 selected work poetry

'As a serious intelligent child would, Rachael walks around her memory house: her mother, her relations, her island, its gothic history; and then one particular cut-off sweet lost relationship, which she re-visits again and again. Using old Kodak photos, particular moments become timeless. An unaffected book, the poems are serious, both in subject and use of language. It's rigorous, unsentimental. Rachael walks around sadness, doesn't dwell - but nor does she let go. And she's a mistress of the perfectly paced ending to a poem. A very unusual and truthful book.

'Maurice McNamara

'What makes us the creative person we become? Rachael Guy observes haunting incidents from her childhood that resonate decades later. A fresh, emotionally mature, insightful and compassionate voice for Australian poetry.

'Julie Chevalier' (Publication summary)
1 The House Is Burning i "Nothing will remain.", Rachael Wenona Guy , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 78 no. 2 2018; (p. 156-157)
1 The Fall i "I remember my mother", Rachael Wenona Guy , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , December vol. 11 no. 1 2018;
1 Archipelago i "My head is an island, my moods", Rachael Wenona Guy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 8 2017;
1 Barren i "The leather recliners are cracked as dry heels,", Rachael Wenona Guy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Summer no. 20 2017; (p. 79)
1 The Fact i "It flew from me and lodged somewhere", Rachael Wenona Guy , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 14 2017;
1 Drone i "I watched her die this morning", Rachael Wenona Guy , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 136)
1 Undone i "a dour Mary haunts every crevice", Rachael Wenona Guy , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 17 2015;
1 Eulogy Rachael Wenona Guy , 2007 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Sleepers Almanac 2007 : A Family Affair 2007; (p. 100-106)
1 Savasana Should Never Be Omitted Rachael Wenona Guy , 2002 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 169 2002; (p. 102-103)
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