Claire Gaskin

Claire Gaskin is a teacher, lecturer and mentor of creative writing. She completed her first full-length poetry collection a bud in the receipt of an Australia Council Literature Board. A bud was released by John Leonard Press in 2006 and was shortlisted in the John Bray SA Festival Awards for Literature. Paperweight was published in 2013 by Hunter Publishers. Eurydice Speaks was published by Hunter Publishers in 2021. Ismene’s Survivable Resistance was completed as the creative component of her PhD in Writing and Literature at Deakin University and was published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2021. Her poetry collection Weather Event is forthcoming with Gazebo books. https://clairegaskinpoetry.com/

Articles by Claire Gaskin:

31 May 202431 May 2024 · Poetry

spontaneous unblocking of angels at drains

Claire Gaskin

pacific gulls carry tightly closed shells to a height then drop them to the rocks below I say I don’t not mind isolation I am introverted

19 March 20211 May 2021 · Poetry

Poetry | Two poems from Ismene’s Survivable Resistance

Claire Gaskin

Two poems from Ismene’s Survivable Resistance Ismene after the Royal Commission the truth is I went back to the ruins of the house I paid with my being to live in the gate like an opening and closing in the heart my dead mother still living in the one […]