Poems from All Under the One Granite Roof:

• Heroic dosing
• Waltmania
• The Christmas Compliment
• Sometimes, a long kiss
• After the Autopsy

Under the One Granite Roof
is a collection of poems relating to Walt Whitman and the time he devoted to the soldiers in the Washington hospitals during the American Civil War.

Karen received a grant from Arts Tasmania to complete this collection. Launched: 22 July 2004.

" ... deeply felt, inventive, inspiring work "

(Peter Macrow in a review of Singing in the Grain)

Karen Knight's work has been widely published in Australian and overseas anthologies, journals and newspapers, including Poetry Australia, Verandah, Sidewalk, LiNQ, Mattoid, Divan and Poetrix.

Karen is the co-editor of 'Interior Despots: Running the Border', an anthology of well-know women writers released by Pardalote Press in 2001. She is also one of the five writers represented in Republican Dreaming (Bumblebee Books, 1999). She has participated in a variety of writing projects around Tasmania.

More about Karen Knight on the Women Tasmania web page

 

Books by Karen Knight

• Under the one granite roof: Poems for Walt Whitman. Pardalote Press, ISBN 09578436 4 X. RRP: AU$20.00
• My Mother has Become: a sequence was published by Picaro Press in October 2003.
• Singing in the Grain is a chapbook published in 2001 by Walleah Press with assistance from an Arts Tasmania grant.