Emilie Collyer



Night comes quickly

I am sitting on the verandah, in the warm Queensland wind, reading Intimacies by Katie Kitamura. The light starts early here and is almost silver. We are visiting my sister-in-law for the first time since her husband died. Bill from …

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‘Permission to write’: Emilie Collyer Interviews Marion May Campbell

I am nervous before our interview. Deciding what to wear, what kind of impression I will make. The day I drive to Drouin, Victoria, it is raining.

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white space

memories of mother hands cool on skin soft love not for bruising current steep reading words and stories Goenpul woman Arrernte poet Gomeroi scholar blistering epic daily humming histories each story its own ordinary love conversation but common refrain mother …

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Wrestling with Mode and Meaning: the Play of Poetry in Theatre

Sitting high in the John Golden Theatre on Broadway, the opening moments of Jeremy O Harris’s Slave Play leave me open-mouthed. A black woman, dressed simply and of another era – one might presume as a slave – enters the …

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With the fishes

The Terracotta Warriors are visiting Melbourne. China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang had them made as Guardians of Immortality, part of his quest to cheat death and become a god. Queues to see the Warriors snake out of the gallery, …

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Suburban murmurs / A quiet word

we slip on the words that have fallen quiet words are you coming home? eaten by dust mites caught in hairs around the sink tap dripping words I don’t know how to change a washer his fingers fat pencil stubs …

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Not the End

You had red hands put too much salt on food hugged with tight arms boomed Bach from downstairs shouted at me for sleeping in drove the car off the road lied about how much you drank made ginger beer that …

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Electronica Spoken Word Mix

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I do want it

[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/Collyer-_Redmond_I-do-want-it.mp3|titles=I do want it – Emilie Collyer & Tim Redmond] I do want it (4:59) Written and produced by Emilie Collyer and Tim Redmond

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