Chris Mansell



Great confidence: self cento 2

last night, this morning, I dreamt incidental walking. This has to be write, as one writes full of synchronicities there was a good question sales at collected works was refreshing though the answer was that also liked more figures the …

Posted in 106: OPEN | Tagged

24.

Posted in 77: EXPLODE | Tagged

Review Short: Chris Mansell’s STUNG

Chris Mansell is a widely published poet with a lively range of interests, a multi-talented writer who bridges various creative worlds; her work sometimes fusing with music, the visual arts, and theatre. Her departure from a narrow specialisation in poetry is highly admirable, but may have made her somewhat under-appreciated both as an energetic innovator and important poet of her generation. Mansell’s first book of poetry appeared in 1978, and she has published more than 25 books and chapbooks in the intervening decades; while her Schadenvale Road, a collection of short stories, appeared in 2011.

Posted in BOOK REVIEWS | Tagged ,

Stephen Lawrence Reviews Chris Mansell

Poet Chris Mansell has been active in publishing and editing since the 1970s. In Sydney, she co-edited and founded magazines of poetry and prose; and she later helped inaugurate Five Islands Press, which continues to produce successful and award-winning volumes of Australian poetry.

Posted in BOOK REVIEWS | Tagged

Serpentine; my breath

SALON Departments: 5-Minute Mystery 3/1/45 The Picnic By The … Swans on the …; Mallard Duck at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor bought too long a day; But now, I often wish the night Had borne …

Posted in 16: SEARCH | Tagged

A nice slice of shredder

Helen, publishing a number of reporters, saw her dream turned into reality a page at a time. At once her castigation of the huge-budget was described as a 'most-vivid film experience'. At the same time asking film critic cabinet minister …

Posted in 16: SEARCH | Tagged

Justin Lowe Reviews Chris Mansell

Chris Mansell is a serious poet. She has an agent and a Statement of Intent, and apart from my faithful drinking partner, Tug Dumbly (who just so happens to hail from Ms Mansell's neck of the woods), I don't know any poet with an agent, and certainly none with an S.o.I.

Posted in BOOK REVIEWS | Tagged , ,