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New PDF release: Wings of the Same Bird

By Lorraine McGuigan

ISBN-10: 1458724840

ISBN-13: 9781458724847

Wings of a similar chicken is a magnificent assortment grown from the mythological suggestion linking birds and the human global with divine nation-states simply past usual event.

The assortment was once the Winner of the IP alternatives 09 top Poetry Award.

The poems attach birds with the adventure of the human soul after demise, representing them as primeval, cosmic, mythical, as messengers of the deities, symbols of conflict, dying and misfortune, but in addition as profound harbingers of power, love and knowledge.
The poetry assortment additionally handles grief from an goal, increased and (excuse the pun) ‘bird’s eye’ perspective.

Born in Melbourne, 1932, Lorraine McGuigan grew up in Sydney. as a result of her mother’s disease she left tuition elderly 13 to take care of her child sisters. In 1954 she hitchhiked round Europe; in London later that yr she met her destiny husband, Kevin; they settled in Melbourne.

When the youngest in their six young children began college, Kevin persuaded her to do an arts measure at Deakin collage. After graduating with majors in literature and philosophy, Lorraine joined the Wednesday Writers; in time her brief tales have been released and bought awards. She held the Margaret Hazzard brief tale Trophy in 2000 and 2002.

In 1995 Lorraine attended the Monash collage workshop and whilst Dr Lyn Hatherly moved to Queensland she requested her to take over as chief of the crowd and to additionally edit the magazine, Poetry Monash. Lorraine has persevered in either roles ever given that. In 1998, a Sue Nicholson scholarship supplied a memorable nine-day remain on the Wollongong collage poetry workshop.

Lorraine has learn her poetry at Melbourne venues like Molly Bloom’s, Melbourne Poets Union, The Dancing puppy and The Society of girls Writers (Vic); additionally in Ballarat, Castlemaine and Guildford. She has been a Featured Reader in different Writers fairs. Her first poetry assortment What the physique recalls shared second position within the Anne Elder Award 2004. Extracts have been learn in 3 ABC PoeticA programs.

Two years after her husband’s dying, Lorraine joined the Ballarat department of Solace and lately undertook education as a aid employee. it really is so much lucrative to assist people who find themselves widowed, the way in which she herself has been helped.

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