Waiting for the Southerly

By Susan McCreery

‘This first book is packed with clear-eyed veracity, offers a shining resilience, personal insight and shared comfort…we are enjoined, a chorus.’ – Les Wicks

Few poets express the meeting of nature and emotion as tenderly as Susan McCreery. Her poems open with images of nature and draw the reader in to scenarios

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Mar 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781760411206

Susan McCreery

SUSAN MCCREERY is a writer from Thirroul, NSW. Her microfiction has been published by Spineless Wonders (Writing To The Edge, Flashing The Square, Out of Place), as well as by Seizure and Cuttlefish. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Best Australian Poems 2009, Sleepers Almanac, Going Down Swinging, Hecate, Five Bells, Island, Award Winning Australian Writing, Lost Boy, Escape, The Trouble with Flying and Shibboleth, among others. Story competition shortlistings include the Overland/Victoria University, the Hal Porter, The Age, the Margaret River and the Albury City; prizes include the joanne burns/Flashing the Square, the Carmel Bird, the Bundaberg Writers, the Peter Cowan Writers, and the Julie Lewis. Her poetry collection, Waiting for the Southerly, was commended in the Anne Elder award (2012). In 2014 she was awarded a Varuna fellowship and an Australia Society of Authors mentorship for her short story collection. She has worked as professional proofreader for the past eighteen years, and when not at her desk she can be found swimming long distances in the ocean.

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Waiting for the Southerly

Waiting for the Southerly

Susan McCreery

Ginninderra Press

Contents

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Waiting for the Southerly

Waiting for the Southerly

ISBN 978 1 76041 120 6

Copyright © text Susan McCreery 2012

Cover photograph © Vincent Valle|Dreamstime.com

Author photograph by Scotti Hamilton

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First published 2012

Reprinted 2016

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Ginninderra Press

PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide SA 5015

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

Acknowledgements

Poems in this collection have appeared in the following publications: The Best Australian Poems 2009, Blue Dog, Dodecahedron, dotdotdash, Five Bells, FourW, Going Down Swinging, Hecate, Meuse Press, Poetrix, Tamba, The Memory Box, The Mozzie, Tide, Voices from the Meadow.

Awards include First Prize Inverawe Nature Poetry Competition 2006 for ‘Waiting for the Southerly’; Very Highly Commended ‘Little Gems’ Gemstones Literary Awards 2006 for ‘Ruins’; Honourable Mention