Annamaria Weldon

States of Poetry WA Podcast | Three poems by Annamaria Weldon

Annamaria reads her poems 'Goddess we trample', 'stone mother tongue', and 'In the National Museum of Maltese Archaeology' which feature in series two of the Western Australian States of Poetry anthology.

<div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/213-november-2017-no-396/4397-ghost-flock-by-annamaria-weldon">'ghost flock' by Annamaria Weldon</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/2056-annamariaweldon">Annamaria Weldon</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/content/213-november-2017-no-396" title="November 2017, no. 396">November 2017, no. 396</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p>While women scanned the horizon, fishers<br />and hunters tended their nets, someone<br />etched the Lapwing crown-plumes in clay ...</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/213-november-2017-no-396/4397-ghost-flock-by-annamaria-weldon">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4344-hypogeum-of-hal-saflieni-by-annamaria-weldon-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni, Malta' by Annamaria Weldon | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/2056-annamariaweldon">Annamaria Weldon</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>I went where she reigned<br />far underground, deeper<br />than roots, in rooms hollowed<br />by hand and bone, where curved walls<br />contained my breath like lungs.</p> <p>              Passageways opened onto chambers<br />              honeycombed in stone<br />    &nbsp ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4343-ghost-flock-by-annamaria-weldon-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'ghost flock' by Annamaria Weldon | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/2056-annamariaweldon">Annamaria Weldon</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>While women scanned the horizon, fishers<br />and hunters tended their nets, someone<br />etched the Lapwing crown-plumes in clay.</p> <p>Abandoning hunger and<br />its frozen ground, they soar<br />South with the <em>Grigale</em> wind</p> <p>Middle Sea harbingers of the<br /><em>Lampuki-fish</em> moon, its halo<br />a herald of autumn rains.</p> <p>Outlines, incisions quicken those<br />plo ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4342-in-the-national-museum-of-maltese-archaeology-by-annamaria-weldon-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'in the National Museum of Maltese Archaeology' by Annamaria Weldon | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/2056-annamariaweldon">Annamaria Weldon</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>We met at the Neolithic display. I was staring<br />at the loom-weights, suspended in a glass case.<br />Handcarved stones, smaller than seashells</p> <p>a tell-tale hole bored through their middle. That’s when<br />I noticed you, uncanny yet not out of place<br />holding a loom-weight. You seemed at home with fibre</p> <p>your fingers felt its tensions, slack or taut,<br />sensitive to tex ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4341-stone-mother-tongue-by-annamaria-weldon-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'stone mother tongue' by Annamaria Weldon | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/2056-annamariaweldon">Annamaria Weldon</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>Alabaster: such a beautiful word for silence.<br />Neolithic Venus, was translucence eloquent<br />enough when stone was our mother tongue?</p> <p>Yellow-throated crocus were strewn<br />at your feet, they fed you honey<br />and broad beans. Worship swelled</p> <p>your breasts and fertile belly, men lived<br />without weapons, women were weavers<br />and potters crowned in cowrie shells</p> ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4340-about-annamaria-weldon-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">About Annamaria Weldon | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/916-hiddenauthor">Hidden Author</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><img src="/images/States_of_Poetry/Annamaria_Weldon_-_States_of_Poetry.jpg" alt="Annamaria Weldon States of Poetry" width="240" height="304" style="margin: 1px 1px 5px 10px; float: right;" /><span class="dropcap">A</span>nnamaria Weldon’s writing residency with Symbiotica UWA prompted the poems, essays, and photographs of Yalgorup National Park in her last book, <em>The Lake’s Apprentice</em ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4339-goddess-we-trample-by-annamaria-weldon-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'goddess we trample' by Annamaria Weldon | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/2056-annamariaweldon">Annamaria Weldon</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>Archipelago, sleeping goddess whose body<br />we trample as tourists take selfies, bored lovers<br />seek mystery, stray dogs piss on temple stones.</p> <p>Inside the sanctuary walls, torba floors endure<br />their bone-white ground broken as the silence<br />now deities are curios, gift shop souvenirs.</p> <p>Asphodel and Sea-squill bloom in the corners of ruins<br />strewn like footnotes to ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/125-november-2014-no-366/2235-the-lake-s-apprentice-by-annamaria-weldon">The Lake's Apprentice</a> <span>by Annamaria Weldon</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/885-janegoodall">Jane Goodall</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/content/125-november-2014-no-366" title="November 2014, no. 366">November 2014, no. 366</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/125-november-2014-no-366/2235-the-lake-s-apprentice-by-annamaria-weldon" title="Jane Goodall reviews &#039;The Lake&#039;s Apprentice&#039; by Annamaria Weldon"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/88b72442fc378fc76c587ff81f25e63a_L.jpg" alt="Jane Goodall reviews &#039;The Lake&#039;s Apprentice&#039; by Annamaria Weldon" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p><span class="dropcap">S</span>amuel Johnson had some advice for aspiring writers. ‘Read over your compositions,’ he said, ‘and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.’ One imagines the impact of this recommendation on an eighteenth-century student of literature, clutching a page of overblown rhetorical flourishes and faux erudition. Our crimes of vanity in writing are very different now – more likely to take the form of descriptive tours de force of the kind fostered in creative writing classes.</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/125-november-2014-no-366/2235-the-lake-s-apprentice-by-annamaria-weldon">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2012/67-march-2012/816-after-devotion">'After Devotion', a new poem by Annamaria Weldon</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/abr-online/archive/2014/author/2056-annamariaweldon">Annamaria Weldon</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2012/content/67-march-2012" title="March 2012, no. 339">March 2012, no. 339</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p>1</p> <p>The far margin of wintering wetlands,<br />mist before sunrise. Outside my window<br />a rock parrot is perched on its fence-post.</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2012/67-march-2012/816-after-devotion">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>   </div>   <div class="t3-sidebar t3-sidebar-right col col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-3 "> <div class="t3-module module-abr-ad-sidebar " id="Mod328"><div class="module-inner"><div class="module-ct"><div class='mod_ijoomlazone' id='ijoomlazone328'><div class='adg_row'><div class='adg_cell'></div></div></div> <div id="blocker-modal-background" class="blocker-modal-background" onclick="javascript:closeBlockerModal(); return false;" style="display: none;"> </div> <div id="blocker-modal-content" class="blocker-modal-content" style="display: none;"> <div class="blocker-modal-header"> <div class="blocker-modal-close"> <div onclick="javascript:closeBlockerModal(); return false;"><span class="fa fa-times"></span></div> </div> <div class="agency-blocker-title">  How to resolve AdBlock issue? </div> </div> 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