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)

Conscious Razing: combustible poems (1986)

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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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