Social distancing from ghosts
March 16, 2021
Just had a new poem published at Not Very Quiet, an online journal of women’s poetry. The theme was ‘mask’, which immediately made me think of how useless a mask would be against ghosts. I hope you enjoy the poem, and do look at the rest of the issue, which was edited by Moya Pacey and Sandra Renew.
Launches
March 11, 2021
Very happy to have a double launch for my books Utterly (Ginninderra Press) and Monstrous (Interactive Press) on Monday. Judith Nangala Crispin launched Utterly from Lajamanu in the Northern Territory by Zoom, and Kaaron Warren launched Monstrous after a fairly probing Q and A session.
What a pleasure to be reading in front of a live audience again at Smiths Alternative in the city (the city being Canberra). The books were published last year, but Covid prevented any live launches or readings.
Utterly can be bought here and Monstrous here. Here’s the cover of Utterly.
Pulped Fiction
February 25, 2021
Just received my contributor’s copies of Pulped Fiction: An Anthology of Microlit edited by Cassandra Atherton. Spineless Wonders is the publisher.
It’s a real challenge to write to a strict word count. I wrote a 200 word piece about strange worms that morph into stranger butterflies, called ‘Tudes’. All of the pieces are playing with genre in some way.
March is going to be really busy; launches, readings and a huge pile of books to review. I also hope to be writing for this blog more frequently.
Monstrous shortlisting
September 25, 2020
Very happy that Monstrous has been shortlisted for the Society of Women Writers NSW Book Awards, in the Poetry Category. Here is the full shortlist:
POETRY – JUDGED BY MARGARET BRADSTOCK
P.S. Cottier Monstrous
Tricia Dearborn Autobiochemistry
Pip Griffin Margaret Caro
Colleen Keating Desert Patterns
Colleen Keating Hildegard of Bingen
The gnome is murderously happy…
Book Review: Two Holocaust stories
August 11, 2020
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6862223/harrowing-and-inspiring-stories/
In recent months I have been reviewing quite a few books for The Canberra Times. The most recent review, published on 8-8-2020, is of two remarkable books recounting the lives of Holocaust survivors, and I thought I’d post a link to it here. The books reviewed are Eddie Jaku’s The Happiest Man on Earth and When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann.
Reviewing is a privilege when it involves reading books such as these; the only problem is trying to do the books justice in the space available.
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PS Cottier 