Thalia (poet)

thalia (born 1952) is a contemporary Greek-Australian poet.

thalia was born in Katerini, Greece and came to Melbourne, Australia with her family in 1952. In her youth she worked in 'sly grog' cafes and later as a secretary. It was in this capacity that she first encountered the Pitman Shorthand for dictation which she uses as the building blocks of a unique style of concrete poetry. This involves using iconic aspects of shorthand characters to produce poems having both pictorial and verbal references to their subjects. Also including the more common type of page poetry, her work addresses issues of oppression and social justice from a marginalised perspective. She record a CD of her spoken poetry and was instrumental in the workers poetry magazine "925" which grew out of a poetry reading she organised.

Bibliography

*"Night flowers" (Collective Effort, 1988)
*"Thalia: New & selected poems" (Collective Effort, 1998) ISBN 0-9587726-2-2

External links

* [http://www.innersense.com.au/salonim/projects/1999/thalia.html 2 poems]
* [http://www.thegatesofparadise.com/thalia/index.html 4 concrete poems]
* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/thalia/kthal0.htm 6 shorthand poems]
* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/l%26d/bpnichol/tta/tta29th.htm Working of bpNichol's TTA 29]

* [http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v1_6_2001/current/forum/more-forum.html An exemplary case: thalia's political poetics] by David Colón (2nd item, scroll down)
* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/thalia/kthal0.ht thalia: a survey] by Karl Young

* [http://www.takver.com/history/925/925_sum.htm "925" magazine]

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