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By Laura Jan Shore

Like water spilling over stones, those poems appear to bubble up from the depths.

"Uncaged by way of calendars and watches", one personality retreats into rainforests, one other explores the realm barefoot looking "life's wild handful of quiver and piss." A twelve-year-old shoots a rattlesnake, an octogenarian pulls vines within the public park. Wolves commute in a van inspiring desires of "the boundless rush and yap of belonging" and a whale bargains solace on a balmy evening at the Coral Sea.

These are luminous reflections at the complicated and infrequently fraught relationships among society and the traditional world.

Born within the united kingdom of yankee mom and dad, Laura learnt to climb stairs at the ocean liner to the States. From Minneapolis to Laramie to Chicago to big apple, she moved often as a toddler and hasn't ever stayed in a single domestic for greater than ten years.

While elevating sons, she taught composition, literature and poetry at numerous faculties in addition to supplying inventive writing classes privately.
Her YA novel, The Sacred Moon Tree, Bradbury Press, new york, 1986, was once nominated for the Washington Irving kid's publication Award. Laura's poetry has seemed in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia and overseas.

In 1996, she immigrated to the Byron Shire the place she initiated the Dangerously Poetic analyzing sequence. Her assortment, Breathworks, was once introduced on the Byron Writers pageant in 2002 via Dorothy Porter and on the Sydney Poetry pageant via Ron Pretty.

She gained the 2009 FAW John Shaw Nielson Award and the 2006 CJ Dennis "Open Poetry" Literary Award. She was once selected by means of the Poets' Union for the 2003 Poets on Wheels travel, which she counts as a poetry spotlight. Her poems have two times been broadcast on Radio National's Poetica.

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