Climate Poetics

Lisa Collyer is a writer and educator in Boorloo. She writes, with a focus on women’s bodies, like the jagged edge of a can opened-up. She is the author of the poetry collection, How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, which was short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award and is published with Gazebo Book’s, poetry imprint, Life Before Man.

She is widely published and was a recent writer in residence for The National Trust of W.A., The City of Swan, W.A. Poets and Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre. She was the 2024 judge of The Tom Collins Poetry Prize, and the winner of the Annette Cameron prize for her poem, ‘Impossible Jeans’. Her second poetry collection, Why the Bootlace Broke will be published in early 2025 with Gazebo Books.