Liz Hall-Downs

Writer, Performer, Musician, Conservationist, Feminist, Proud Cripple, and Parrot Lover.

  • Writing About Disability – an experiential perspective
  • MY ARTHRITIC HEART – writing an illness narrative that refuses to be ‘inspiring’. (2007)
  • My Arthritic Heart – 2 Reviews
  • Published poetry collections
  • Under Her Eyes (1984)
  • Fit of Passion by Liz Hall-Downs & Kim Downs (1997)
  • My Arthritic Heart (2006)
  • Writers of the Storm: 5 East Coast Poets (1993)
  • Conscious Razing: combustible poems (1986)
  • Girl With Green Hair (2000)
  • People of the Wetlands / Wetlands haiku (1996)
  • PR photos 1986-7
  • PR photos for ‘Biggles’ duo, 1988-89
  • ‘The Trouble With Harry’ Liz Hall-Downs & Kim Downs, 2003
  • Off the Page, On the Stage: Poetry and Performance (2002)

Month: May 2018

by Liz Hall-Downs

Do I Have ‘Poet Voice’?

Here’s an interesting article about poets and poetry readings a friend shared today on Facebook. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cultural-analysis-poet-voice Which got me thinking about various poets I have known and how much their ‘poetry reading’ voices differed from their speaking voices. The standout in my memory is the late Shelton Lea, who could switch between broad Strine pub-speak […]

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