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: June 2018

by Liz Hall-Downs

When men unfriend me on facebook, I have learned to turn away.

I was much taken with Clementine Ford’s comments today (June 19, 2018) about #notallmen.  It hit the spot, and I had intended to share it on facebook with my (not very numerous, but much valued and respected, contacts).  But a longish rant came out, and I realised I’m really quite angry – and justifiably so. […]

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