Poetry

Launch of A Reckless Descent from Eternity


Anne's first full-length poetry collection, A Reckless Descent from Eternity, has just been published by Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide.

Kathryn Lomer writes of A Reckless Descent from Eternity,

'What is impressive is the ambit of this collection, the way Morgan explores with equal authority he natural world, history, mythology, the vagaries of humankind, and grief. A finely-tuned intelligence shines through these poems, which are lexically rich and jam-packed with precise imagery. Her poems marry the down-to-earth to the numinous; they make evident the breadth of Morgan's engagement with life and with language, and her passion for fusing the two.'

Poems in this collection have appeared in The Weekend Australian Review, Island, New England Review, Famous Reporter, The Write Stuff Showcase of Tasmanian Poetry, RePUBlic Readings, the Poet’s RePUBlic broadsheet, Marginata, The Word is Out magazine, Blue Giraffe, Thirst and Pixel Papers, and the anthologies A Net of Hands, Ed. Megan Schaffner, 2009, The Weighing of the Heart, poetry anthology of emerging WA writers, 2007, Mood Cumulus, Central Coast Poets, 2007, Running Through the Stars, Fellowship of Australian Writers Tasmania, 2009, and River of Verse, 2004, Black River Press, 2004.

In 2007, Anne was awarded a Varuna/Macquarie Bank Longlines’ mentorship to work on A Reckless Descent from Eternity with Deb Westbury as mentor.

Echoes from the FiretrailsAnne also has a chapbook, Echoes from the Firetrails, published by Tom Collins House Press in 2004.

Anne has won awards for her poetry, including the Orange Arts Council Banjo Paterson National Poetry award. In 2006, Anne was a prizewinner in the Gwen Harwood poetry award and was a featured poet at WA’s Spring Poetry Festival.