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Kerry Greer

Kerry Greer is an award-winning poet and writer based in Western Australia. She received the Venie Holmgren Prize for Environmental Poetry in 2021. Kerry has been shortlisted for the ABR Calibre Essay Prize, the Woollahra Digital Literary Award, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the ACU Poetry Prize, and more. As a widow and solo parent, Kerry has a particular interest in writing about grief and loss. Her debut poetry collection, The Sea Chest, was published by Recent Work Press in November 2023.

Grey

.across the long grey-blue limpid line of coast, smell of fire. the mother reaching— — and turning now and still and whitely into light— ((and the child- ren now one voice calling one noise)) .at first lick all loveliness—gone. .at.first.touch— …

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Lake

I don’t want to let anyone else in yet but I remember being loved the slope of your shoulder as you pressed forward and I yielded, my hands knowing the movement of your back not ever from sight as now …

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Questions

The map was a body And it all went up in flames. Yes, that’s right I have his ashes, Mostly here. Some were given I can’t tell you favourite landmarks Anymore. I liked all of it. To his brother and …

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