ELIZABETH OXLEY
POETRY & WRITING
lizabeth Oxley received her master's degree
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in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. She was a 2022 Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award winner and has appeared on RTÉ Radio 1's The Poetry Programme and Sunday Miscellany.
Elizabeth's poems and writing have appeared in literary journals, newspapers, magazines, and in her first poetry collection, After April Rain (Longship Press, 2021).
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lizabeth Oxley's first poetry collection, After
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April Rain features 29 poems that chart the course of one 'good girl' navigating landscapes of 'long fields of skin', a 'drugstore temple on [an] asphalt mount', 'the weather in my grandmother's living room...before her lungs rattle—not thunder / rolling closer but sunshine mobilising to depart'; and a house where outside 'pink blooms erupt like wounds'.
New York State Poet Laureate Alicia Ostriker says of Oxley's poetry: 'I don't know how Elizabeth Oxley manages to write poems that are fresh and dewy, and cruel and edgy, at the same time—but she does. She is keenly readable. More power to her.'