Mourning is Women's Business

Lee Cataldi, born 1942, lives near Adelaide and has published three books of poetry. Invitation to a Marxist Lesbian Party, which won the Ann Elder memorial Prize, The Women who Live on the Ground, which won the Human Rights Award for Poetry, and Race Against Time which won the NSW Premier's Award for Poetry. She has worked as a field linguist on the Australian Languages, Warlpiri and Ngardi. She looks forward to the return of poetry as a major art form, being the most suitable for writing on walls with charcoal.