Anna Couani is a contemporary Australian poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and teacher

Teacher

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Anna Couani was born and grew up in Sydney

Sydney

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. She studied architecture at the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

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, then took an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Technology Sydney. Since the 70s she has participated in feminist activism, small press publishing and has taught art, English and ESL

English language learning and teaching

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 at secondary schools. A concern with marginalised aspects of women's lives runs throughout her writing. The novel The Western Horizon was serialised in HEAT from 1996 to 2000 and is now available online http://seacruise.ath.cx/annacouani/westernhorizon/index.htm.

Works

Poetry

• Were all Women Sex-mad? & Other stories. (Melbourne : Rigmarole, 1982) ISBN 978-0-909229-19-1
• The Harbour Breathes. (Sydney & Melbourne: Sea Cruise/Masterthief Enterprises, 1989) ISBN 978-0-908152-14-8

Edited

• Island in the Sun : An anthology of recent Australian prose with Damien White & Tom Thompson (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) ISBN 978-0-908172-01-6
• Island in the Sun 2: An anthology of recent Australian prose with Damien White (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) ISBN 978-0-908152-09-4
• Telling Ways: Australian women's experimental writing with Sneja Gunew (Adelaide : Australian Feminist Studies, 1988) ISBN 978-0-86396-068-0

External links

• Anna Couani Home page
• Women Writing: Views & Prospects 1975-1995 Conference paper at NLA
• Homeland, Nostalgia, the Uncanny: The Work of Anna Couani from Framing Marginality by Sneja Gunew
• Images of The Cross in the poetry of Kenneth Slessor, Harry Hooton, and Anna Couani by Ruark Lewis
• Austlit - Couani, Anna