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in Melbourne, Australia
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Contemporary, Poetry, Fiction

Influences
Cate Kennedy, Angela Carter, Oscar Wilde

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Morgan Bell is a Australian author of short fiction and visual poetry. Her books include Sniggerless Boundulations, Laissez Faire, and Intersection Control: Collected Works.

She is a qualified technical writer, creative writing teacher, and editor of Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions. Her first chapbook of visual poetry Idiomatic, For The People was released in 2019. In 2021, Flying Islands published her visual poetry collection Pretend I Don’t Exist.

Morgan enjoys the visual storytelling of film and TV, which is of course a euphamism for being a couch-potato and movie trivia buff.

Morgan currently resides in Port Stephens NSW with her two cats, Romilly and Sansa, and her mother.

Morgan Bell was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1981.

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Introducing my debut poetry collection: Idiomatic, For The People







It's not poetry, it's formatting. Australian author, Morgan Bell, squeezes through the crawlspace of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. A verse debut from a microfiction craftsperson.

"A stunningly original series of poems that are as visually beautiful as they are emotionally haunting. Rich with idioms, the phrases are often subverted to be both a familiar ghost of the original and unsettlingly fre Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 15, 2019 21:43 • Tags: concrete, experimental, fawn, fight, flight, freeze, poetry, rabbits, survival-instincts
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