In Between the Dancing

E. A. Gleeson

Jan 2008 · Interactive Publications

About this ebook

Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award. An impressive first poetry collection traverses time and place with ease. Acute in her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women as the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. 'In the poems of Anne Gleeson, memory is transformed into memorable speech. With wit and passion, skill and fellow feeling, the fragmentations of the past are made whole through a re-imagining as poetry. In Between the Dancing is the premier of a new poet, a first book that is as premier as it is memorable.' - Paul Kane, Antipodes

About the author

E. A. Gleeson was born at Coleraine and lived the first six months of her life in her grandmother's home at Wootong Vale. The rest of her childhood was spent on a Soldier Settlement farm near Camperdown in Victoria's Western District. Since then, she has travelled widely. She has lived in urban and rural Australian communities, and, in Tonga, as an Australian Volunteer International. In the mid 1990s, Anne began writing poetry and quickly established her reputation with a quick succession of prizes and publications. She features regularly at Victoria's premier poetry venues and, occasionally, in other places, when she travels. Anne currently lives in Ballarat, Victoria, where she works as a writer, educator and funeral director.