Launch speech: Willo Drummond on Gold Digger for Compulsive Reader
'Gold Digger is a bristling invitation. A challenge and a call to attention. It demands an opening of the eyes and ears to lives lived vivid and vital despite the social context in which they are lived. This is a collection as galvanising as it is refreshing, and I congratulate Lisa and Gazebo Books on its publication. If you identify as a woman, you will feel seen in these pages. If you neither identify as a woman nor have spent any of your life socialised as one, prepare to have your eyes unpeeled. I commend this fierce collection to you. With Lisa, I invite you to bear witness to these bold women, being and doing, but no longer waiting to be seen.'
Willo Drummond on Gold Digger at Better Read than Dead Bookstore.
Reviews of How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up
'Throughout the book, the poems manage that delicate and tricky balance between being moving and meaningful, wry, humorous and esoteric while still remaining grounded in the everyday.
How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is a brave and sophisticated debut and it’s easy to see why the book was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award.'
Magdalena Ball reviews, How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up for Compulsive Reader
'This first book attracted many well-deserved opportunities for development and workshopping, which pays off in a debut that is bound to become an Australian classic.'
Elizabeth Walton reviews, How to Order Eggs Sunny side Up for Arts Hub
'These are poems with a sharp outline. They...are clever poems written for the curious and intelligent reader.'
Jane Frank reviews, How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up for Stylus Lit
'A major theme of Collyer’s work is the female body. Her collection includes wry poems about female physical beauty that come from a posture of acknowledged complicity with social expectations.'
Miriam Wei Wei Lo reviews, How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up
Read reviews of Women of a Certain Courage
'In particular, Lisa Collyer’s ‘Prolonged Exposure’ stood out to me for its experimentation with form and fragmented storytelling, which results in a unique and emotionally raw exploration of what it means to be courageous.' Nilab Siddiqi reviews, Women of a Certain Courage
Collyer reviews, The foal in the Wire by Robbie Coburn for Compulsive Reader
Collyer reviews, Freedom, Only Freedom by Behrouz Boochani and The Flirtation of Girls by Sara M Saleh for The Writers' Collective
Collyer reviews, G-d, Sleep & Chaos by Alan Fyfe for Compulsive Reader
Collyer reviews, Carapace by Misbah Wolf for Mascara Literary Review
Collyer and Noske review, Moon Wrasse by Willo Drummond for Sydney Open Journals
Collyer reviews, Ghosts Struggle to Swim by Jane Frank for Westerly Magazine
Collyer reviews, Under the Tattered Roof by Jerome Masamaka for Westerly Magazine
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