Award-winning Williamstown poet Chloe Wilson has published a collection of poems, titled Not Fox Nor Axe.
Ms Wilson recently won the Flash Fiction Prize at Ireland’s West Cork Literary Festival.
“Not Fox Nor Axe collects poems I have written over the past five years, which engage with history, myth, art and the natural world,” Ms Wilson said. “There are, for example, poems about Tchaikovsky, Caravaggio, Red Riding Hood’s grandmother, Judith and Holofernes, and Rapunzel’s hair.
“I’ve been fascinated with the curious and strange for as long as I can remember. The title poem contains the line: ‘Perhaps not fox nor axe, but something gives us chase’, which I read as a kind of memento mori, and this is a theme which runs through the book.”
Ms Wilson, who also teaches creative writing, is now working on a new poetry collection and writing fiction.
Her previous literary awards include the Gwen Harwood Prize, John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers, (Melbourne) Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award for Poetry, and Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award.
Not Fox Nor Axe is available at Readings and other selected book stores, and online.
