Kate Fagan Biography
Kate Fagan was born in 1973 and is a poet, editor and songwriter whose books include The Long Moment (Salt),Thought’s Kilometre (Tolling Elves), return to a new physics (Vagabond) and First Light (Giramondo) in 2012. She is a former editor of the US-based journal How2and stems from one of Australia’s preeminent folk music families, the Fagans. Her album Diamond Wheel won the National Folk Recording Award of the National Film and Sound Archive in 2006. She currently lectures in literary studies at the University of Western Sydney.
A long shadow passes
over the garden. Yesterday
I buried the bones, feathers and skulls
of two magpies fallen
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Letter IV: On Reality
We crossed the seaward field
with the air heavy against us,
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The beginning of duration
The infinity of cells
The form of unknowing
The hopelessness of dropped article
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Cento for Tom Lee
And finding nothing
you look back over your shoulder
happy lives, a lot of time
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Cento for Beginners
The nasturtium is to itself already
a memory. It opens its leaves
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