Lia Dewey Morgan is a poet, writer and library worker living in Naarm. With a background in spoken word, choral music and rap, her writing masterfully explores connections between music and poetry, through playful use of movement, timbre and rhythmic device. Despite being raised as an atheist, Morgan’s recent work considers the deep entanglements between poetry and religious scripture, and in particular, how practices of queer faith can respond to a quaking world. Morgan’s first collection, Bath Songs (published by local small press nomorepoetry) was chosen for Aniko Press’ Best of 2022 Book Recommendations. Australian Book Review’s Ender Baskan described her poems as having a ‘resonant poetics of emergence,’ while Not Very Poetic’s Tess Fletcher called them ‘carnal…visceral… fierce and tender’. Since publishing her book, Morgan has returned to private study and experimentation, searching for an honest poetics of place and intercultural exchange.
