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)

Tag: Disability

by Liz Hall-Downs

‘poem for the non-visibly disabled’ and ‘disabled’: an exegesis

Featured image: ‘Liz Hall, Two exposures’, Lee Waddell, circa 1986 I wrote the following article as a submission to Black Inc’s upcoming anthology, ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’.  The editor, Carly Findlay, was only able to choose 40 of the 350 submissions received. That’s an astonishing response, and speaks to just how keen disabled people […]

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