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| Shari writing in the field, on Nywaigi Land, August 2024 |
Shari Lynelle is an award-winning Australian poet and creative practitioner who lives on Djaara Country in Castlemaine Victoria, who also happens to be Deaf. Shari holds MA and PhD degrees from Melbourne University. Her current interests include practice-led research in neuroplasticity and embodiment alongside ecocritical theory, and a new book of short fiction, in tandem. Recent poetry continues to engage ekphrastic with ecofeminist approaches, while a new manuscript of current poetry-in-progress develops writing that has evolved through a combination of awareness through movement techniques as a foundational aspect of creative process. She is the author of Foxstruck & Other Collisions, which was Highly Commended for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022 and The Non-Sequitur of Snow, which was Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Awards. Her new book, Lunette, is forthcoming in 2026. Shari was recently a guest co-editor of Plumwood Mountain Journal 12:1 The Braided Gift.
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| Shari was a co-editor of Plumwood Mountain Journal 12:1 The Braided Gift. https://plumwoodmountain.com/issue/the-braided-gift/ |
"... My residency at Gunyah will be devoted to seeding new poems and gel-press prints on Gathang Country, whose generative intentions hope to inhabit the phenomenology of ‘rest’ and ‘shelter’, the poetics of which are beginning to inflect a new manuscript-in-progress: She Sheds (working title). This project explores the poetics of female-oriented creative spaces, their progenitors, antagonists, and the ‘sheddings’ that accrue. I anticipate that new poems will be inspired by the material ambience of Gunyah’s timber and pole house among the She-oaks overlooking water on Gathang Country. Aboriginal Women's Heritage: Port Stephens will guide my reading during the stay. I anticipate making haptic-based drawings and gel-press prints inspired by naturally fallen (or falling) forms, like leaves, (light), cones and bark, in situ, which in turn will generate reflective, embryonic writings or ‘d::welling’ clusters of lines or notes, whose energies I anticipate as preparatory ground for new poems tending process and place ... "
You can follow Shari on Instagram @shari.lynelle and go to www.sharilynelle.com to find out more about her practice.
