Anna Couani
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Anna Couani (born 1948) is a contemporary Australian poet and teacher.
Anna Couani was born and grew up in Sydney. She studied architecture at the University of Sydney, then took an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Technology Sydney. Since the 70s she has participated in feminist activism, small press publishing and has taught art, English and ESL at secondary schools. A concern with marginalised aspects of women's lives runs throughout her writing. The novel The Western Horizon was serialised in HEAT from 1996 to 2000 and is now available online [1].
[edit] Works
Poetry
- Were all Women Sex-mad? & Other stories. (Melbourne : Rigmarole, 1982) ISBN 978-0-909229-19-1
- The Harbour Breathes. (Sydney & Melbourne: Sea Cruise/Masterthief Enterprises, 1989) ISBN 978-0-908152-14-8
Edited
- Island in the Sun : An anthology of recent Australian prose with Damien White & Tom Thompson (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) ISBN 978-0-908172-01-6
- Island in the Sun 2: An anthology of recent Australian prose with Damien White (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) ISBN 978-0-908152-09-4
- Telling Ways: Australian women's experimental writing with Sneja Gunew (Adelaide : Australian Feminist Studies, 1988) ISBN 978-0-86396-068-0
[edit] External links
- Anna Couani Home page
- Women Writing: Views & Prospects 1975-1995 Conference paper at NLA
- Homeland, Nostalgia, the Uncanny: The Work of Anna Couani from Framing Marginality by Sneja Gunew
- Images of The Cross in the poetry of Kenneth Slessor, Harry Hooten, and Anna Couani by Ruark Lewis
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| NAME | Couani, Anna |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Australian poet and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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