About

Sue Stanford is enrolled at Monash Uni in a PhD on the relationship between the Japanese and English Language haiku traditions. She has translated Japanese haiku and Peace poetry (mostly by witnesses of Hiroshima and the bombing of Tokyo). She is associated with the organisation Japanese for Peace and is president of the Melbourne Poet's Union. She has also won prizes for her haiku, here and in Japan, including the Hobo Haiku Competition and the Melbourne Poet's Union National Poetry Competition. Her previous collection Opal (Flat Chat Press) was published in 2006.

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Reviews

"Applying laudable craftsmanship, Susan Stanford floods her work with colour and texture. The poems in this collection are rich with nature, their vivid imagery frequently drawn from both the natural and the human world. Her acute perception of small, everyday dramas invites me to appreciate moments that I have often experienced myself without recognizing their significance. The universal appeal of her poems will have readers dipping into The Neon City again and again."

Ferris Gilli
Associate Editor, The Heron's Nest

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Extract

the police
untie the cordons
white chrysanthemums

for auction now
one piece missing
from the box of soldiers

we sweep his grave
the cow pond
choked with weeds

On the Road
as I turn, each fragile page
breaks free

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