Lightseekers

By Kathleen Bleakley and 'pling

Kathleen Miriam Bleakley was born before breakfast. She was delivered by her Grandad – Dr John Martin – in a room awash with Moroccan light. The first sentence she uttered was more sish singers. Her fish-like love of swimming can be traced to lighthouse keeper ancestry. When Kathleen moved to Wollongong, she navigated her way around

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Dec 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781760410582

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Lightseekers

Lightseekers

Kathleen Bleakley

’pling

Ginninderra Press

Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

seeds & spices

street lights

salt

light-particles

kaleidoscope

sepia

ISBN 978 1 76041 058 2

Copyright © Kathleeen Bleakley & ’pling 2015

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All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

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First published 2015 by

Ginninderra Press

PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

In loving memory of our sisters

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Carolyn 19/7/1964–11/12/2010

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and

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Kerstie 18/12/1972–29/3/2011

Acknowledgements

Some of these poems have been previously published, broadcast or performed locally, nationally and internationally as detailed below. They may have appeared in earlier versions/formats.

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Journals/Magazines & Anthologies

AGENCY (Canada – online); Australian Reader (online); Hecate; Idiom 23; BLAST; Jumping Out Of Cars, Ginninderra Press; Muse, including ACT Poetry Award short list; New City Project, and The City Project, Ern Malley Press in association with Aberrant Genotype Press; Etchings; Griffith Review; lip; Melaleuca; Mosaics, Central Coast Writers; Poetrix; Ripples Magazine; Snowmonkey, Ravenna Press (USA); Sound @nd Fury The Gypsy Anthology, Keep the Gypsy Bar; The Perfect Diary, Big Stick Productions; touch me (online); Wet Ink; Windmills, Deakin University Press; Writing To The Edge, Spineless Wonders.

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Awards/Competitions

Adore, Sailing, and Sounds of Stones were Highly Commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers (ACT) Annual Poetry Award, 2007; Adore, Runner-up, Trudy Graham Literary Awards (Poetry), 2008; Ash Garden (new version), High Commendation, Friendly Street Political Poetry Competition, 2007, and Short Listed, ACT Arts Poetry Award, 2003; Black & Light, Acknowledgement in Bauhinia Literary Awards, 2007; Thirty-three, Runner-up, Poetrix 30th Issue Poetry Competition, 2008;