Laura Jan Shore was born in the UK, raised in the US, immigrated to Australia in 1996 and has lived on the Far North Coast of New South Wales ever since. The Sacred Moon Tree (Bradbury Press, 1986) was nominated for the Washington Irving Childrens Book Award. Her readings have included Poetica on Radio National, The Brett Whitely reading series, the Hudson Valley Writers Center in NY, Perth Poetry Club, the Sydney Writers Festival, Byron Bay Writers Festival and Queensland Poetry Festival. Shes held residencies at New Pacific Studio, New Zealand, KSP Writers Centre in Perth, Varuna in the Blue Mts. and the Poets on Wheels tour, 2003. President of Dangerously Poetic Press, she co-edited 13 books and has facilitated poetry readings since 2000. She has been teaching creative writing and poetry since 1980. Laura will continue to encourage local community building through poetry. Her dream is to find fresh ways to connect poets and poetry lovers so they might nourish and sustain each other in a global community.
"No one knows how many times were born / or why, life after life, this joy and devastation. This is the mystery explored again and again in Laura Jan Shores beautifully written and fully imagined poems that comprise Afterglow. She revisits her dead husband, and he revisits her in various guises, times, places and voices, each a facet of the many person-ed selves we are and have been to one another during this lifetime and into the next. The wisdom in these poems is startling and snaps us into and out of dream. Shore reminds us poem by poem: You know youre here to be /broken. Nothing to fix." -- Dorianne Laux, author, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected
"My ears throb / with listening. / Your silence, / my uproar. Afterglow is at once a reckoning with loss and a celebration of what has been lost and the richness that remains. It honours a love story with two endings, the second one final. You will find raw grief transmuted into startling poems. Intertwined with death and its seismic aftermath are sensual pleasures recalled, humour alongside sorrow and anger, and a poignant portrait of one much-loved." -- Tricia Dearborn, author, Autobiochemistry
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