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Susie Anderson

Susie Anderson is a proud Wergaia and Wemba Wemba woman from Western Victoria who writes poetry and nonfiction. Her work reflects on the hidden layers of visual arts practice, Country, memory and place, and has been published by galleries, poetry and literature journals in Australia and abroad. Anderson’s poetry collection the body country was published with Hachette in 2023 and shortlisted for both the Victorian and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

‘Language is sculptural material’: Manisha Anjali in Conversation with Susie Anderson

Poets traverse barefoot through immaterial places like the past, the future, and dreams. The container that houses the immaterial is the body. It is Country. Wergaia and Wemba Wemba poet Susie Anderson’s debut collection, the body country (2023), is a timeless capsule in which the material and immaterial are swirling in figure eights and where the self metamorphoses over and over in a delicate surrender to the infinite rhythms of Country.

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Tell Me Like You Mean It 4

With the glorious task of commissioning writers for a new collection of sincere, heartfelt writing for Tell Me Like You Mean It volume 4, I found it took longer than usual.

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‘A means of resistance’: Susie Anderson Interviews Alison Whittaker

Some writing teaches you possibility. Possibility in a number of ways: seeing yourself reflected in a body of work, echoing familiar words, places, or ideas; some writing is a lesson about form, or acts as an overall object to aspire to.

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