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)

Music performance photos of SWAMPFISH

Elsewhere in this site are audio and video clips, and my article on the Autoharp.

Photos of Us, as Swampfish, in performance.

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Swampfish gigging in Brisbane

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And if you have enjoyed what you have read here, please consider supporting a crip freelancer and buy me a coffee. My Paypal link is below:

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Recent Posts

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  • A Memorial Poem for Shelton Lea
  • Articles & Reviews
    • Off the Page, On the Stage: Poetry and Performance (2002)
    • Poetry Book Reviews published in AMBR, AWBR, and Ulitarra (University of New England) 2000s
    • Poetry book reviews published in Thylazine (2007) and fiction, nonfiction and poetry reviews at www.thecompulsivereader.com (2006-8)
    • The Alternative Movement and the Australian Literary Scene (2000)
    • Thom the World Poet: A Life in Poetry (2003)
  • Being Parronts of Parrots
  • Fit of Passion – Public Performance of the Poetry of Gender
  • Music performance photos of SWAMPFISH
    • In defence of the Autoharp
    • Swampfish
    • ‘Homeward Dove’ Reviewed in Autoharp Quarterly
  • My Archival Stuff
    • A Review of My Arthritic Heart, 2006
    • Fit of Passion – Public Performance of the Poetry of Gender
    • Interview with Liz Hall-Downs by Coral Hull, published in Thylazine, 2001
    • More archival ‘Fit of Passion’ Reviews
    • My Solo Poetry Video Archives
    • PR photos 1986-7
    • PR photos for ‘Biggles’ duo, 1988-89
    • Review of ‘Fit of Passion’, Pym Schaare, UQ, 1997
    • ‘Fit of Passion’ Review, Brisbane 1996
  • Nature, Conservation, Sustainability
    • ‘The Trouble With Harry’ Liz Hall-Downs & Kim Downs, 2003
    • ‘We built our own home on the disability pension’ by Liz Hall-Downs
    • ‘Who Needs Cows When You Can Have Koalas?’ (2003)
    • A win for our ‘eco-dwelling project’
  • Published poetry collections
    • Conscious Razing: combustible poems (1986)
    • Fit of Passion by Liz Hall-Downs & Kim Downs (1997)
    • Girl With Green Hair (2000)
    • Mountains to Mangroves (1999)
    • My Arthritic Heart (2006)
    • People of the Wetlands / Wetlands haiku (1996)
    • Under Her Eyes (1984)
    • Writers of the Storm: 5 East Coast Poets (1993)
  • The #MeToo fiction: ‘Fears – Size/Quantity – Margins’, self-published, 1986
  • The #MeToo Poems
  • Welcome! And About Me
  • Writing About Disability – an experiential perspective
    • ‘My Arthritic Heart: notes of a work in progress’
    • My Arthritic Heart – 2 Reviews
    • MY ARTHRITIC HEART – writing an illness narrative that refuses to be ‘inspiring’. (2007)
  • ‘War’s Genetic Legacy’, a personal essay

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