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Louise Oxley

Louise Oxley lives and writes in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her poems have been widely published and awarded since the 1990s. She has won the Bruce Dawe, Melbourne Poets Union and Shoalhaven prizes, among others. Her collections are Compound Eye (2003), Buoyancy (2008) and Range Light (2025). Louise’s poems have been widely anthologised, most recently in Oystercatcher Two (5Islands Press) and Best of Australian Poems 2025 (Australian Poetry).

How to treat a dairy cow

Swap the number on her laser-printed electronic ear tag for a name. Name her for something rare and precious, something Earth has produced as a miracle. Emerald, say. Name her without appropriation. Consider her hourglass face. Her time hasn’t been …

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Parachute

How like a flotilla of stalled parachutes is the canopy of this lone eucalypt, caught and agitated by a morning squall. Laden cumulus barge across the window, a flow field breaking brightly open, only to close again. Looks like the …

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The Bat Corridor

Or we could leave the house, the pressure of its walls and light, its hard words bumbling against the windows, and go down to the gully where the creek-bank collapses with the autumn rains, something you could fall for and …

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Fossil

Louise Oxley lives in Hobart. Her poems have been published widely in Australian journals. Louise's first collection, Compound Eye, was published in the Five Islands Press New Poetry Series No.9 in 2003. It was commended in the Anne Elder awards for a first book of poetry. Recent prizes also include the Tom Collins Poetry Prize.

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