Sandra Renew, Moya Pacey
Not Very Quiet : The anthology
Recent Work Press, Dec 2021
Over the last five years, from the #MeToo Movement to same-sex marriage, from devastating bush fires to the global pandemic, the online poetry journal Not Very Quiet has dedicated itself to publishing women’s voices from across the globe. Not Very Quiet: The anthology selects poetry that has given voice to the social conscience of the community, constructions of lesbian and queer, the challenges posed to the social construction of gender, as well as the complexities and possibilities of the human condition.
Edited by Moya Pacey & Sandra Renew
About the Editors
Sandra Renew has international, national and local publication of her work in journals and anthologies, as hard copy and on-line. She has a local and national reputation as a performance poet and was a featured poet at the National Folk Festival Spoken Word for three years from 2017 to 2019. Sandra also writes short form prose and micro-lit and was a finalist for both the 2018 and 2019 joanne burns Microlit Award. She is experimenting with using traditional forms to write about LGBTIQ presence in the world with the express aim of upsetting the order of the social order.
Sandra is a founding editor, with Moya Pacey, of Not Very Quiet an online journal for women’s poetry and co-hosts the Not Very Quiet women’s poetry nights at Smith’s Alternative. Sandra and Moya were awarded a Canberra Critics Circle Award for their influential contribution to women’s poetry in 2019.
Moya Pacey was born and grew up in Middlesbrough in the north of England. She came to Canberra in 1978 when it was a country town masquerading as a city and taught English until she retired.
Her poems have won prizes, been read on radio, appeared on buses, gallery walls and published in print and on-line in Australia and overseas. Her third poetry collection was Doggerland (Recent Work Press 2020). Her previous two poetry collections: Black Tulips (Recent Work Press 2017) and The Wardrobe (Ginninderra Press 2010) were shortlisted for the ACT Writers Poetry Award. One Last Border: Refugee Poems published in 2015 by Ginninderra Press was co-written with Sandra Renew and Hazel Hall.
Moya is a founding editor, with Sandra Renew of the women’s on-line poetry journal Not Very Quiet and was awarded, with Sandra Renew, a Canberra Critics’ Circle Award in 2019 for her influential work in exposing women’s poetry to view via the journal.
In October 2018, she was the Poet in Residence at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
