Liz Winfield

Liz Winfield is a Tasmanian poet, editor, literary events organiser, poetry writing teacher and former State President of Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW-Tas).

Liz Winfield's first poetry collection Too Much Happens, Cornford Press, 2003, was assisted by an Arts Tasmania grant in 2000. She has coordinated the Republic Readings from their inception in 1999 and edits chapbooks and a poetry broadsheet The Poets' Republic, for Walleah Press. Her fame has reached as far as the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Her poetry can be viewed in the 'Showcase of Tasmanian Poetry'.

Liz Winfield's poetry collections are Too Much Happens, Cornford Press, 2003, and Catalogue of Love, Walleah Press, 2006.

This Tasmanian woman, who was born in 1964 and has 'a genetic auto-immune disease so rare that it doesn't have a name, only a description', knows how to create the inwardness (Hopkins called it the inscape) that makes a lyric poem ignite a spark all its own. That gift, of art or will, is really about as rare as the aforementioned illness. So is the absorbing experience of reading this book.

Kerry Leves review, Overland #178, Autumn 05

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Read Saying Goodbye.