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: Slam

by Liz Hall-Downs

My Solo Poetry Video Archive #2: that time I stupidly entered a Poetry Slam – a playlist in 4 rounds

I’ve written elsewhere on this site about the pros and cons of the Poetry Slam movement.  I had been active at readings for some years when the Slam model emerged in the US, with Australia quickly following.  (For the uninitiated, the Slam is a competition in which poets perform their work to a time limit […]

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