Gillian Swain
Gillian is involved in running various poetry events including Poetry at the Pub (Newcastle) and is the co-director and poetry curator of the Indie Writers Festival ‘IF Maitland’.
BottomGillian Swain is from Lake Macquarie, living in East Maitland NSW. Gillian’s first poetry collection is My Skin its own Sky (Flying Islands Press 2019) following the chapbook Sang Up (Picaro Press, 2001). She has poems published in various anthologies and journals, including Poetry For The Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures (2021, Littoria Press), What we Carry: Poetry on childbearing (2021, Recent Works Press), Burrow (Old Water Rat Publishing, v1&2), and Live Encounters online magazine: Special Australia-New Zealand edition (May 2021) and again in the magazine’s 12th Anniversary edition, Vol 2 (Dec 2021). Gillian is involved in running various poetry events including Poetry at the Pub (Newcastle) and is the co-director and poetry curator of the Indie Writers Festival ‘IF Maitland’. She is currently one of the artists in residence at Lighthouse Arts Newcastle, located at Nobbys-Whibayganba headland.