Summary
Pam Schindler’s Say a River proves the best poems don’t have to shout. There is so much light in the brushstrokes of this painterly collection in which Schindler washes private moments of grief and intimacy onto nature’s liminal spaces. These are compact poems “spinning into [their] own weather”; they are “thin moon[s] cradling the dark”.
— Zenobia Frost
Here’s a poet who is one of Australia’s recording angels of the natural world, whose pen’s an artist’s brush, whose…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761094965 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761094963 |
| Author: | Pam Schindler |
| Publisher: | Ginninderra Press |
| Imprint: | Ginninderra Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 21 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 77g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 4mm |
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About The Author
Pam Schindler
Pam Schindler is an award-winning Australian poet living by the sea in Blackmans Bay, Hobart, Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her work has appeared in Australian magazines and anthologies and in her two collections, A sky you could fall into (Brisbane: Post Pressed, 2010) and say, a river (Port Adelaide: Ginninderra Press, 2023). She graduated with an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Queensland and worked as a reference librarian at both the University of Tasmania and the University of Queensland. Pam is a Hawthornden Fellow, receiving a writer’s residency at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, in 2013. In 2020, she was commended in the WB Yeats Prize (Australia). In 2021, she took part as one of 23 Tasmanian poets in the Poetry for a More Than Human World project, led by Kristen Lang. She was a featured poet in the 2024 Tasmanian Poetry Festival. In 2025, Say, A River won the prestigious Tasmanian Literary ‘Tim Thorne Poetry’ Award.
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