Lisa Collyer - 'How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up' Signed Copy (lco001)
How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is a conversation in poems about the taboo and invisible experiences of female bodies. Themes include the infertile and the aged as abject. Women’s representation in literature is typically self-sacrificing with the aged and childless seen as pitiful. Collyer gives agency to alternative experiences of womanhood to disrupt women’s consignment to nature as earth mother.
This poetry-cum-memoir juxtaposes bodies with ecology and a poetics of space to represent domestic trauma and escape. Home is a frequent setting as a place to dread and ultimately escape representing family violence towards women.
How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up was shortlisted for the eminent Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript.
This book has been signed by the author.
PAGES: 168
DIMENSIONS: 130mm x 215mm
AUTHOR: Lisa Collyer
PUBLISHER: Life Before Man
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2023
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lisa Collyer is a poet and educator living and working in Boorloo (Perth). She writes poetry about women’s bodies like the jagged edge of a can opened-up. She has been published in Westerly, Cordite, Rabbit, Australian Poetry Anthology and more. She was an Inspire writer-in-residence with The National Trust of W.A. and was short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award for her unpublished manuscript. How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is her debut collection.
This item is available in Store at Midland Junction Arts Centre and at Mundaring Arts Centre.
