Suzanne Covich's Writings
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Article
Jan.30.2013
Western Teacher: Western Australia's State School Teachers' Magazine
SUZANNE COVICH: A DRIVING FORCE
When We Remember They Call Us Liars
It was the great Ernest Hemingway that once said, “…You especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously…”
Author Suzanne Covich knows what it means to hurt like hell and to be able to write seriously.
Growing up in a small rural community in the 60’s, Suzanne said she loved...
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Poem
Aug.27.2012
2nd Prize Victoria Cancer Council Arts/Poetry Award
NO IDEA WHY, ABSOLUTELY . . .
No idea why I’d dream of a red
nineteen-seventy-nine Combi van
I’d bought without checking a single
solitary thing and when I woke,
I thought of the money I’d just spent
to purchase a new fan-dangled
touch-phone I couldn’t work or find
because I’d touched something,
I don’t know what, and it wouldn’t ring
when I did what I...
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Poem
Aug.27.2012
1st Prize Gold Coast Poetry Award
Dear Bill
When you hid in the classroom, got found then “forced”
to follow the teacher to the bus, you refused to get on, kicked
up and plonked yourself down on the grass, curled like a Koala, so
terribly afraid you’d never see your family again, if you went on the trip
to that faraway place in the bush, where Aboriginal kids were
once herded together and...
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When the words I write sing to me, I dance.”
—Suzanne Covich, September 2012
About Suzanne
Suzanne Covich, the author of a childhood memoir, When We Remember They Call Us Liars (Fremantle Press, 2012) spent her early years in a large family in the country, leaving school unwillingly at thirteen to work in an old people’s home. After entering...
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