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Shey Marque

Shey Marque is a poet and former scientist, with interests in cellular memory and the quantum universe. She is currently Deputy Chair of WA Poets Inc. Her poetry appears in major literary journals including Cordite, Island, Westerly, Meanjin, Southerly, Overland and Australian Poetry Journal. She won the QLD Poetry Festival's Emerging Older Poet Award 2018, the Blue Nib Poetry Chapbook Award 2020, and twice won the KSP Poetry Prize with shortlistings in numerous others including the Tom Collins Poetry Prize. Most recently, she was awarded runner-up for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2023. Her collection, 'Keeper of the Ritual' (UWAP 2019), was shortlisted for the Noel Rowe Poetry Award.

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Triptych with Oranges

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Shey Marque

i The valley cambered as much as hollowed between hills that let us come here as strangers dropping flesh around planted fields, a containment where the orchard coughed up oranges, forsaken fruit nobody picked. One by one they fell, each …

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Unpicking a Bird

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Shey Marque

To follow the wing of a herring gull is a meditation on balance an invisible string links lead weight to scale feather to foot to my eye the gull hops on one leg leans to the right extends a wing …

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Neruda’s Sixteen Finches

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Shey Marque

It’s difficult to see the glass ceiling because it’s made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly. ― Caitlin Moran Insanity. …

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