DAEL ALLISON


'Fairweather's Raft' is the 2012 poetry collection by Australian poet Dael Allison, based on the life of artist Ian Fairweather. Eleven of the poems in the collection were made into a soundscape on ABC’s Poetica in 2014. Dael's many awards include the Wildcare International Essay Prize, NT Literary Awards Charles Darwin University Prize for Essay, the Henry Kendall Poetry Award, Queensland Poetry Festival Phillip Bacon Ekphrasis Award and three stints at Varuna – a Retreat Fellowship, the Varuna LitLink/NRWC Award for an Unpublished Novel and the Varuna/ Picaro Press Chapbook residency.







Poetry

Water-carrier cantabile
fireflies summon
Contained by Nias
Feri's Kite
Lighthouse 1882
Tasmania: Extinction Keening
The Bear
Passing Through
Fugitive colours, (and) House


Essay

Take nothing for granted


Reviews

Dael Allison | Last Days of the Mill, (Pete Hay and Tony Thorne)
Gillian Telford | Dael Allison's Fairweather's Raft (Mascara Literary Review)