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: July 2018

by Liz Hall-Downs

The ‘Fit of Passion’ Archive: the songs #4. ‘Political Correctness Rag’

We wrote this satirical song together while on tour with the Ozpoets troupe in 1994. Hence it contains references to events current to the time, such as Hillary Clinton’s push for universal health care while serving as First Lady, and the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding skating scandal. It also refers to Bill Clinton’s infidelities and the […]

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