The 8:07 Taroona to City

Liz McQuilkin

Liz McQuilkin, a former English teacher, began writing poetry after retiring. Her collaboration – with four other Tasmanian poets – in the collection Of Things Being Various won the FAW National Community Award in 2010 and was published by Forty Degrees South in 2011. The Nonchalant Garden (Walleah Press, 2014) was her first solo collection. She collaborated with Karen Knight in Renovating Madness: Poems of Willow Court and the Royal Derwent Hospital (Walleah Press, 2018). Her second solo collection, Unwrapping Clouds, was published by Forty South in 2022. Recently, another collaboration has seen the publication of The Dear Four (Walleah Press, 2025).