The Sacking of the Muses, Paperback

the Muses have been sacked their role in the pantheon sold up for some new real estate venture When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Muses who inspire poetry, astronomy, history and daily living bring their song and dance into present-day political struggles. These Muses are for rebellion. Susan Hawthorne's poems span millennia of resistance by women. The earth itself is implicated. She writes about women's bodies, how they are used, abused and celebrated in birthing, in sexual pleasure, in grief, in imagining. She draws on stories from ancient and contemporary India, from Greece and Rome, through language, storytelling and translation. we embrace our double lives like actors and their alter egos some say slesha is unnatural I've heard the same said about us

Susan Hawthorne is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Her works include a novel, The Falling Woman (1992), Limen, a verse novel (2013) and poetry collections Lupa and Lamb (2014), Cow (2011), Earth's Breath (2009) and The Butterfly Effect (2005) among others. She has been the recipient of international residencies inIndia, Italy and Turkey and been published internationally. She has translated literary works from Sanskrit, Greek and Latin and her books and poems have been translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Indonesian. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University, Townsville. Her previous works of fiction include Dark Matters (2017), The Falling Woman (1992) and a verse novel, Limen (2013) as well as contributing to numerous anthologies and journals in North America including Sinister Wisdom, Tessera, Trivia and others. Her poetry has been a finalist for the Audre Lorde Lesbian Poetry Prize (USA), the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. In addition to her writing she has taught English to Arabic women, worked in Aboriginal education and in universities and been an aerialist in a circus.