Bronwyn Blaiklock is a multidisciplinary creative: a poet, a pianist, a reformed perfectionist. Her poetry leans in, is always short and often sharp.

She has been called a “reverse thief” by poetic legend, Emilie Zoe Baker, who said Bronwyn’s “quiet & potent” poetry “leaves little treasure parcels in the imagination”. Her writing is “tender and tough”, a “voice of sound bombs and balance”, according to another poetic legend, Nathan Curnow. Bronwyn’s first chapbook collection Etching my Initials was published by Melbourne Poets Union in 2016.

Bronwyn’s present poetry draft, Chasing Grace, was shortlisted for a Varuna Fellowship but to date, sadly, it has not made it into the reading world due to various hold-ups, disappointments, and epic life interventions. One day.

She has won some tiny poetry awards, and is mighty proud of her first libretto, ‘Song of the Goldfields’, written in collaboration with renowned Australian composer Ann Carr-Boyd (soprano, cello and piano; Wirripang Publishing) and premiered in the 2013 Pure Poetry Recital.

A few readings

Clunes Booktown (2016); ‘Stories of Love & Hate’, Newstead Short Story Tattoo (2011); ‘Back Wood Writers’, Words in Winter (Newstead); Castlemaine Poetry Readings, Guildford Hotel (2011). Café-Poet-In-Residence (Ballarat), Australian Poetry (2012),  Overload Poetry Festival (Melbourne).

A few anthologies

Grieve 4, Hunter Writers Centre (NSW, 2016); Traditions Found, Art Gallery of Ballarat/National Gallery of Victoria exhibition ‘Living Traditions: The Art of Belief’ (2013); Flora Captured, Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition, ‘Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art’ (2012); Poetry Monash 84. (ed. Lorraine McGuigan, 2012); Poetry Monash 83. (ed. Lorraine McGuigan, 2011), Land Lines, Anthology of Regional Writers, Sue Gillett (editor, MPU, 2010); Pendulum (2007); Page Seventeen 4 (2006); Wagga Wagga Writers Writers 14, 15, 16, 17, FourW Press, NSW (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006); Friendly Street 27 (2003).