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tiddas

— Susie Anderson

Poetry

from the body country
Published by Hachette

Wergaia and Wemba Wemba writer Susie Anderson’s poetry and non-fiction writing about art, artists, memory, place and love has been published widely in print and online. Selected publications include Archer Magazine, Artist Profile, Artlink, un magazine, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. In 2018 she was a runner-up in the Overland Poetry Prize and awarded the Emerging Writers Fellowship at State Library Victoria; in 2019 she was awarded a Writers Victoria Neilma Sidney travel grant and undertook a residency with Overland Literary Journal. In 2020 she edited the online journal Tell Me Like You Mean it Volume 4 for Australia Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review. In 2021, she was a black&write! fellow and her debut poetry collection ‘the body country’ was released in 2023. She was born in 1989 in the regional Victorian town Horsham and now lives on Boon Wurrung land. 

About the publisher

Tiddas is part of Susie Anderson’s recently published poetry collection The Body Country, published by Hachette Australia.

Hachette Australia is part of the international Hachette group. They are one of the largest publishers in Australia and take pride in bringing inspiring, fresh, original, thought-provoking stories and unique voices to Australian readers.

gums in headlights 
mum drives home 
after many wines
and one coffee 
empty country roads
swerving for fun
cassette up loud
searching for mopoke 
every silver tree 
cold backseat wearing 
her big jumper
maybe we will
never get home