ALISON J BARTON 

WIRADJURI WOMAN

POET & EDITOR

Alison J Barton is a widely-published Wiradjuri poet whose work appears in Australian and international journals and anthologies. Her work has been recognised in numerous prizes.

Her first collection of poetry, Not Telling, is out now with Puncher & Wattmann.

  • Barton compresses theory, lived experience and explorations of race and gender in her highly crafted poems, achieving precision and potency. In Barton’s finely wrought poetry, defamiliarisation as an act of decolonisation is utilised to effectively restate and reclaim. What is evident in her writing is a deeply intelligent awareness of the poetics of being.

    Dr Claire Gaskin

  • Alison J Barton’s first full-length collection of poetry draws from family lore, Australian history, archival material, and psychoanalytic theory in its attempt to realise the potential of language to retrieve identity. Barton’s poetry proceeds as an act of literary decolonisation, in pursuit of the healing, relatedness, and telling the truth.

    Mascara Literary Review

NOT TELLING

NOT TELLING

Not Telling illuminates the ongoing legacy of colonial dispossession and the strength of its survivors.

 
birth dress
wealth for toil
artificial bodies
December Graveyard suite