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Rozanna Lilley

Rozanna Lilley is a widely published researcher and author. Her work is included in Best Australian Essays (2013 and 2014) and Best (of) Australian Poems (2015 and 2023). Her hybrid prose-poetry memoir Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life (UWA Publishing, 2018) was shortlisted for the National Biography Award in 2019. Her poetry chapbook, The Lady in the Bottle (London: Black Spring Press), was released in 2023. Rozanna’s first published short story, ‘Prayer bones’, appeared in Verge 2025 - Blue (Monash University Press); ‘Interception’ is forthcoming in Coastlines in 2026.

https://rozannalilley.com.au

Taxidermy

In the Museum’s enfolding hush the Superb Lyrebird stretches splayed toes on wooden platform to rake leaflitter tawny tailfeathers Posterity preserved glassy eyes peering past Burke’s inscribed revolver through double doors to forest deep listening as an axe strikes blackwood …

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Malby’s Terrestrial Globe

Dr Moussé utters a satisfied sigh as Malby’s terrestrial globe is unpacked from straw-stuffed crate three feet in diameter all points of the compass converging at Beechworth Mrs Goodman commands her girls to file past in reverential pairs you need …

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Playthings

Mother read the catalogue’s cornucopian promise: ‘The Best of Toys for Girls and Boys’ The dollshouse came wrapped in sledding snowmen (fat legs akimbo) its painted pinecone shrubs, a topiarist’s dry dream My brother got a belt and holster to …

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