Claire GaskinClaire Gaskin's first full-length collection of poetry a bud was completed in the receipt of an Australia Council Literature Board grant for 2003. "A bud" was released by John Leonard Press in 2006 and shortlisted in the John Bray SA Festival Awards or Literature in 2008. Her subsequent poetry collections are Paperweight (2013), Eurydice Speaks (2021) and Ismene's Survivable Resistance (2021). Her first poem, 'Woman' was published in 1985 in Poetry Monash no. 18 and since that time she has had over 100 poems published in major literary journals and newspapers. Her poetry has been widely anthologized and critically reviewed. She is a long-term teacher of creative writing across the university and community sectors. Read More Read Less