PUBLICATIONS

Cry of the Curlew is a poetry collection anchored in and around Pinchgut Creek on Wiradjuri country. Allis Hamilton fetched poems from the wings of birds, wrestled words from the mouth of the wind, notated movement of the grasses into verse that will lead you to the hills of her home. Published by Heron Cottage Press.

“The first poem in Allis Hamilton’s collection is irresistibly captivating. Her grammar and the detail and depth of her perception will stop readers in their tracks. In all her work, she seems to be at one with what she writes about, and she writes with open-hearted and full consciousness of the individuality of everything she describes. The freshness of her language, and the subtlety of her poetic craft mirror her delight at being party to the endless revelations of the earth. I haven’t read any Australian poetry so joyously alert to the things one can love for such a long time that it comes as a joy to think one can still revel in life itself.”
– MICHAEL SHARKEY – former editor of Australian Poetry Journal

“there is much to enjoy in this book and the author is to be congratulated for sharing her very personal journey through these poems. They demonstrate an encounter with nature that is in many way an ecstatic communion.”

– DI COUSENS – review from Plumwood Mountain Journal

Storm Music is a chapbook handmade by Allis Hamilton, featuring a selection of some of her previously published poems. The collection is 16 pages and is a signed, limited edition run of 50 books. The book is printed on recycled paper (except the transparency page) and is bound on a foot-pedal machine. It is created in an off-grid shack in the Australian bush. 'Storm Music' includes drawings by Allis.

Praise for 'Storm Music':

‘Storm Music… I have read through, & enjoyed for its honesty and tender lyricism…’
– ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of The Lost Words, The Old Ways, Landmarks, Upstream.

'What a beautiful thing ‘Storm Music’ is! [Hamilton] has a passion for landscape, the kindest sympathy with animals – yet some of [her] best, irresistibly vivid poems are about people.'
– ALISON BRACKNBURY, award-winning poet and broadcaster and author of Skies, (Carcanet) chosen by 'The Observer' as one of its 'Poetry Books of the Year'.

’I've received your book, which is a truly beautiful book in every way - the artwork, the paper, the stitching. And of course the poems, all of which speak to me quietly but strongly. I love 'Storm Music', and 'Proprioception' is I think a superb poem. I think all books of poetry should be like this.’
– ROSS GILLETT, author of Wundawax and other poems - with Mark Time Books and a new one coming out this year through Puncher and Wattman.

POETRY

Elf-Shot –– The Oxford School of Poetry Review, #2, Edited by Alexis Thompson, Feb 2024

Ancestral Graveyard — Hyacinth Review, Edited by Ariel K. Moniz & Terri Pinyerd, June 2023

Decade – Meanjin Vol 81, No 4, Edited by Bronwyn Lea, Dec 2022

Epistle – The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology, edited by Eli MacLaren, 2023

Spider and Stone – Poetry Scotland, 103. edited by Andy Jackson. May 2022

A Pindari Day - The Poetry Review, Vol 111, No 4, Winter 2021, Edited by Emily Berry

Among the quietening air – Overland Literary Journal, 243 Winter, 2021, Australia. Edited by Toby Fitch

Hare – Reflections Series # 50, Castlemaine Art Museum, May 2021

Remembering World, & Guidance – Elbazin, Edited by Simon Upton, Volume 3, 2021

Ghosted – Meanjin, WINTER 2020. Volume 76, Issue 2. Edited by Bronwyn Lea, 2020

To Save Herself – Australian Poetry Journal, 9.2 . Edited by Andy Jackson and Jennifer Maiden. 2020

For the Birds – BBC Radio 3, Freeness programme. produced by Rebecca Gaskell, presented by Corey Mwamba, 2020

Bonfore, & Bereavement – Dark Sky Dreamings - an Inland Skywriter’s Anthology, 2019, Edited by Merrill Findlay. Australia.

Whence – The Poetry Review, Vol 109, No 2, Summer 2019, England. Edited by Emily Berry

Absence Embodied – Westerly, May 2019. Edited by Josephine Taylor

Chase of the Light – The Creel: an anthology, Guillemot Press, UK; December 2018. Edited by Luke Thompson 2019

Stone – Medical Journal of Australia, June 2018 Vol. 208  No. 11.

Sound of a Seashell – Skylight 47, Spring/Summer 2018, Issue 10, Galway, Ireland.

Breath – Overland Literary Journal, 228 Spring 2017, Australia. Edited by Toby Fitch and Jacinda Woodhead

Lost Albert Ross – Flight Path, Hallowell Press, Western Australia, 2017. Edited by Virginia Jealous

Winding Her – The Poetry Review, Volume 107, No.2, Summer 2017, England. Edited by Emily Berry

Yet – Love is so short, Blank Rune Press, Australia 2017. Edited by Valli Poole

A Satellite of Eyes – The Caterpillar, Spring 2017, Ireland. Edited by Will Govan and Rebecca O'Connor

Egg – The Pickled Body, Issue 3.2, Ireland. Edited by Patrick Chapman & Dimitra Xidous, 2017

Poetry, & Proprioception – Southerly Journal, Volume 76, Number 2, Australia. Edited by Andy Jackson and David Brooks, 2017

For the Birds – Australian Poetry Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, Australia. Edited by Michael Sharkey 2017

Storm Music – Skylight 47, Issue 7 ;  Galway, Ireland. Edited by Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, Marie Cadden and Ruth Quinla, 2016

Wending and other poems – An Index of Women Poets compiled by Christine Murray, Poethead. Ireland, 2016

Wince – The Caterpillar, Issue 12 Spring 2016, Ireland. Edited by Will Govan

Wending – Plumwood Mountain, Volume 3 Number 1, Australia, 2016. Edited by Tricia Dearborn

Mrs Piper – Australian Poetry Journal, Issue 5 No. 1, Australia, 2015. Edited by Michael Sharkey

The Fottie – Painted Words, 2015, Bendigo Tafe Anthology, Australia. 2015

Let the Eyes and Hands Speak; Mother; When I Dreamed; Song – Your Beautiful Names, Mark Time Books. Australia, 2015

White-necked (Pacific) Heron – Bimblebox 153 Birds touring exhibition, curated by Jill Sampson. Australia. 2015

The Walk – Buckingbong to Birrego: An e-book, CAD Factory. Edited by Vic McEwan. Australia. 2015

The Drop; Absence – Painted Words, Bendigo Tafe. Edited by Ian Irvin. Australia, 2014