Claire Gaskin

Claire Gaskin has been writing and publishing her poetry extensively for over three decades. A Snail in the Ear of the Buddha was published by SOUP Publications in 1998. She completed her next collection of poetry a bud in the receipt of an Australia Council Literature Board grant for 2003. A bud was released by John Leonard Press in 2006, and was shortlisted in the John Bray SA Festival Awards for Literature in 2008. http://johnleonardpress.com/ Her poetry has been anthologised in Australian Poetry 2009, Motherlode, Australian Love Poems 2013, Best Australian Poems 2009, 2010, 2013 and in Contemporary Australian Poetry and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. Paperweight, was published in 2013 by Hunter Publishers. Eurydice Speaks is forthcoming with Hunter Publishers https://hunterpublishers.com.au/. Her fourth full length collection with the title, Ismene’s Survivable Resistance is also forthcoming, with Puncher & Wattmann.

Articles by Claire Gaskin:

19 March 20211 May 2021

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 […]