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: mothers

by Liz Hall-Downs

The ‘Fit of Passion’ Archive: the performance poems #9

Two pieces by Kim Downs, one about his mother and one about his father. This footage was recorded by Kim’s father, Wayburn, in Rogers, Arkansas during the Ozpoets tour of the USA in 1994.  Of course, with them both in the audience, it was an appropriate time to perform them directly to their subjects. ‘Sandstorm’ […]

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