Poetry

Leaf and Stone

For over fifty years Margaret West’s poetry has developed in tandem with her acclaimed art practice, which is distinguished by its intellectual rigour, its innovative edge and its unique poetic sensibility. Leaf and Stone contains a distillation of the thinking and writing of a mature artist at the height of her powers.

Released in April 2012.

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Sketches, Ashfield Park

A collection of evocative poems and images, celebrating the moods and vagaries of Ashfield Park, Sydney, where Margaret West regularly walked with her dogs.

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... from a Garden

Margaret West’s texts of the poems that accompany her works in the Gallery ... from a Garden.

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Finger Against the Light

A selection of Margaret West’s poems, written between 1996 and 2007 ― in Sydney, in Paris, in Blackheath.

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