"Lyn Reeves’ poetry is characterised by a finely attuned feeling for landscape and for sensory impressions that accompany intense emotional experience, as well as by a keen apprehension of the tensions inherent in social relationships."
Angela Rockel

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Poems by Lyn Reeves

• Sarah's isle
• Absconding into the Woods
• Magic eye beads
• The risks you took
• I woke up wanting
• Green glass day
• Where are my daughters?

Lyn Reeves is a Tasmanian writer whose poetry, stories and haiku have been published widely in journals and anthologies throughout Australia and overseas.

In 1999, Lyn Reeves was runner up in the Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize, sponsored by Island Magazine. The Literature Board of the Australia Council awarded her a grant in 2002 to develop a collection of poetry, and she was also awarded a Varuna Fellowship for May, 2002. In October 2002, Lyn was writer-in-residence at St. Helens (through an award granted by the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre’s Tasmania – Island of residencies).

Lyn coordinated the series of readings in Hobart known as the Moorilla poetry readings and is an associate editor of Famous Reporter. She is also manager of Pardalote Press.

To poems by Lyn Reeves

Publications by Lyn Reeves

Speaking with Ghosts was released in August 2002 by Ginninderra Press. Some poems from this collection are available here.
Also see launch speech.

Walking the Tideline, a collection of Reeves' haiku, was released by Pardalote Press in December 2001. See review of this collection.

A selection of Lyn's poetry appears in Republican Dreaming: 5 poets (Bumble-bee Books, 1999), and also in Moorilla Mosaic: Contemporary Tasmanian writing (Bumblebee Books, 2001), coedited by Lyn Reeves and Robyn Mathison.

Walking the Tideline, by Lyn Reeves
Pardalote Press, 2001. 54pp. RRP $13.00

Venues where Lyn has read her work recently include: The Bond Store Readings, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; The Sydney Writers’ Festival 2002, Blank and Free at the Bond (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery), The Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2002, The Mountain Festival (March 2002), Spoken Word and Music (Moorilla Museum of Antiquities, 2001), The Republic Bar and Café Readings and The Tasmanian Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, 2001 and 2003.