Thalia (poet)

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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.

[edit] Bibliography

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

[edit] External links

• 2 poems
• 4 concrete poems
• 6 shorthand poems
• Working of bpNichol's TTA 29

• An exemplary case: thalia's political poetics by David Colón (2nd item, scroll down)
• thalia: a survey by Karl Young

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NAME	thalia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Greek-Australian experimental poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Katerini, Greece
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH