Johanna's BlogLisa Gorton
Lisa Gorton lives in Melbourne. Her first poetry collection, Press Release, was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award and the Mary Gilmore Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Lisa completed a doctorate at Oxford University on John Donne’s poetry and prose, winning the John Donne Society Award for Best Publication in Donne Studies. She received the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Her novel for children, Cloudland, was one of The Age 2009 books of the year.
Occupation
Listen. We can talk here,
this republic in your empire of intention.
Know when you step out of this door again
corridors will take you
as if they knew the way and could explain.
But the unending rhetoric of transit r
returns to the cubicle. NO, this upright casket
where you sit like the soul of the wall
or buried Vestal
in the aloneness of your life, that lustre on tiles no graffiti confides.
