Jenny Barnard
Photo by M. Barnard, © 2001.

ELEGY

For Terri Moore

All things die
I cannot keep you
from your solution.
The place is Golgotha
the heart is full
as any river
as any eye.
I’ll let you go
to the singing stars
to the hurtling of day into night.
I let you go,
Isn't that what love asks?

More poems on this web site:

• Lines on expanding my horizons
• Southbank cafe
• Dream walk
• Warthog heaven
• A hole in the soul
• Elegy, for Terri Moore

"The poems I find hard to write are the ones that have teeth marks on them."

" I like spontaneous combustion in my poetry"

"Poetry swings!"

To Jenny's poems

Jenny Barnard won both the FAW and the Hal Moore memorial prizes for poetry in 2001. [See note]

Many of her prize-winning poems have appeared in the RePUBlic Readings chapbook series (published by Ralph Wessman's Walleah Press).

Like many other Hobart-based poets, she belongs to Hobart's "Watersmeet" haiku group, and often performs at the Republic Bar and Cafe Sunday readings.

Publication details

Jenny Barnard's work has been published in 'Broad Seat', 'Famous Reporter', and in 'Together,Alone', an Anti-Cancer Council anthology.

Note:
After Tasmanian poet Terri Moore's death in December 2001, the Hal Moore Memorial Prize became known as the Hal and Terri Moore Poetry Prize, and in 2002 Jenny Barnard was runner-up for this prize.