Poetry anthology – Heartache

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The second volume for the anthology encapsulates some of the transformative works and branching out into the world. While Loneliness was and remains quite personal, Heartache begins to explore external ideas and relationships. One of the most impressionable moments was when I lost my cousin in a car accident, when we were younger we would wait for the stars to reveal themselves in the sky and make a wish on the first to be seen. A couple of years later, I was faced with a two hour journey driving at night in a deteriorating condition to seek help.

Perseverance

These were the last years where I wrote prolifically before finding that the traditional path to publishing poetry was fading. Almost no avenue remained and it would be a while before another way provided a genuine option. By then I had no intention of publishing and had developed the skill of novel writing with a young adult fantasy series. I struck up a connection with an international journalist who had taken on a project embedded in Australian history and these discussions I embarked on the release my poetry.

Published by Chantelle Griffin

Chantelle’s mother remains one of the most famous witnesses in Australian legal history. The first large screen movie the author saw, at the age of nine, had an actress playing her as an infant when she was at Uluru on 17 August 1980 at the same campsite as the Chamberlains. She began publishing poetry later in life with the first release coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the disappearance of Azaria. While most poems have been released in the volumes for the anthology, more than a thousand were written throughout a twelve year period. Chantelle has a Master of Environmental Planning and enjoys life at half pace with two cats. Her first fantasy book was released too soon, after a near death experience and a second edition was published four years later. She resides in Tasmania and continues to write as a past time in the evening.