Woman of Tides

By Chrisoula Simos

Woman of Tides is a book to be enjoyed and savoured. It is thoughtful, evocative, immersive and illuminating. The reader can enter its world at any page and the pieces will resonate as they take the reader through rich emotional and intellectual terrain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jan 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781398415133

Chrisoula Simos

Chrisoula Simos is a Melbourne-based poet who has had poetry published in the United States and Australia. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in literature and philosophy and a master’s degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). Her career has included working as a court reporter in the Supreme Court of Victoria, and a Hansard reporter and editor in Federal Parliament, Canberra. She is currently a teacher of English as a Second Language and English for Academic Purposes at RMIT University. As a teenager, Chrisoula lived in Greece for two years, studying in Athens. This experience had a profound influence on her life, enriching her appreciation of the heritage, language and culture of Greece, and imbuing her with a love of travel. Her first volume of poetry, Inner Landscapes Outer Realms, was published in 1992 in the United States. Woman of Tides is her second major work.

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Woman of Tides

Chrisoula Simos

Austin Macauley Publishers

Woman of Tides

Preface

Low Tide

Recollections

Late Afternoon

The Cello

The Orange Tree

Dressing Table in a Cottage

After the Rains

Fountain

Grandmother

The Black Dress

Photograph

Sea Cliff Formation

The Lotus Pickers

The Garden

The Lake

Visitation

New Moon

To the Child

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Turning Tides

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Waxing Moon (Seasons Only We Know)

Let Us Sit and Talk

Voyeur

Rise Softly, My Love

Lagoon

The Avenue

At Times

Rain in the Bough

Untitled I

The Baths

Untitled II

Untitled III

Summer on the Island of Thira

Church Dome

Urns

Widows of the Sun

The Lights of Oia

Doves

Steps

Sentinel

Midday Sun

Courtyard

Full Moon

The Race

Moon Dance

Untitled IV

Waning Moon

Leaving

Disillusion

Absence

Break the Gourd

Stillborn

Aftermath

Conversation with My Aunt

Song for the Unrequited

Two Faces

Saxophone Through Rain

At the Café

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‘Missing in Action’

A Cold and Distant Morn

A Cold and Distant Morn

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III

Rising Tides

The Curator

Ode to the Unsung

Traveller

The Veils (Ode to Age)

Voices

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When I Am Done

Wintering

Other Publications

Book of Poetry:

Individual Poems:

Radio Broadcast:

Short Story:

Chrisoula Simos is a Melbourne-based poet