Face to face

Myra Schneider's recent poetry publications are Multiplying The Moon (Enitharmon 2004), Becoming (Second Light Publications 2007) and Circling The Core (Enitharmon 2008) . Other books include Writing My Way Through Cancer, a journal with poems and therapeutic writing ideas (Jessica Kingsley in 2003). She is co-editor of four anthologies of women's poetry, including Images of Women published by Arrowhead Press/SLN in 2006. Writing Your Self (with John Killick), which has a major focus on poetry, was published by Continuum International in November 2009. She was shortlisted for a Forward Prize in 2007. Her work is widely published in magazines and anthologies and she much appreciates the support of Les Murray who has published her poems for many years in the Australian cultural magazine Quadrant. Myra is consultant to the nationwide Second Light Network of Women Poets which promotes women’s poetry and offers many opportunities to its members to develop their work. She contributes articles and reviews regularly to ARTEMISpoetry a comprehensive magazine for women’s poetry. Myra is particularly interested in personal poetry and making connections between the inner and outer world, also in narrative poetry. She also writes about the natural world and the environment. She does many one-off workshops all over the country and is fascinated by the writing process.