A Poem is a Parachute - Schaffner, Megan
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'Megan Schaffner knows how poetry works. She knows the way a strong poem can float you gently to somewhere you've never been before/ [where] with luck/ you'll land wrong side up/ exhilarated/ ready to explore a new country. This is precisely what Megan's poetry does. As soon as you land, you realise you are in the hands of a consummate guide. Pleasure awaits. This poet-guide is deeply wise and funny. She is thoroughly intelligent and gentle. She is totally without bluster or ego. She chauffeurs you through her country with thoughtfulness, wit and dexterity. She is fearless in the face of the…mehr

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'Megan Schaffner knows how poetry works. She knows the way a strong poem can float you gently to somewhere you've never been before/ [where] with luck/ you'll land wrong side up/ exhilarated/ ready to explore a new country. This is precisely what Megan's poetry does. As soon as you land, you realise you are in the hands of a consummate guide. Pleasure awaits. This poet-guide is deeply wise and funny. She is thoroughly intelligent and gentle. She is totally without bluster or ego. She chauffeurs you through her country with thoughtfulness, wit and dexterity. She is fearless in the face of the big topics: beauty, dementia, eros, anger, silence, art and war. But a list cannot take you to a country. You simply have to go there. Set off on your travels into this elegant and well-wrought book with high hopes and total confidence. Megan Schaffner knows how poetry works.' - Dr Gina Mercer
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Megan Schaffner came from South Africa to Tasmania with her husband and two children in 1961. After the birth of their third child, she taught Drama at the Hobart Teachers College and then worked as a Speech and Drama Adviser in the Tasmanian Education Department. During a long and happy retirement, she travelled in Australia, South Africa and Europe, edited three anthologies - poetry, short stories and essays - for the Tasmanian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and enjoyed her grandchildren. She also indulged her passion for poetry, writing and reading, ran poetry reading groups and found time to write poetry, a family history and memoirs.