PUBLICATIONS:
2000 Visionary Women, (British anthology),
Crooked River Press (American quarterly anthology),
Queanbeyan Selections (anthology),
DiVERSity 2000, AIPF anthology
1999 Speaking Of…, first poetry collection.
1995 & 1996 ANU Poets Lunch anthology
1995 Off the Edge. Canberra Performance Poets
anthology pre 1995 Articles and short stories.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
December 2000 Announcement of my nomination as
Convenor of 2001 Australian National University (ANU)
Lunch. April 2000 Feature Poet at Austin International
Poetry Festival (AIPF). Interviewed on the Texas Nafas
televised poetry program. 1999 Publication of first
collection of my poetry in September. Poetry recorded
by ABC radio for National Poetry week. 1996 Included
in Canberra based poets group featured at the NSW
Spring Writers Festival.

poetry by Pauline Brooks:
KEY
My friend gave me a house key
Which only works when the door is open.
My friend tells me it is a guest house key
And that it works for everyone else.
This may be so But it doesn’t work for me.
WALKING
Left town so you wouldn’t
Become one of my problems.
In Houston saw a familiarly filled
T-shirt and jeans walking toward me.
Up close the face, Mexican not Irish,
With a little more hair.
The eyes and line of mouth were yours.
I fought down the urge to make them mine,
Kept walking.
FREEDOM SAYS
Don’t die for me.
Dying’s so damn easy,
So live for me, it’s harder.
My existence depends on
Every day little decisions,
Hundreds you make.
Will you grow -
Together or apart?
In wisdom or ignorance?
In freedom or chains?
Only you can decide.
I have no use for another martyr.
Live for me, it’s harder.
