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Gold digger is a nuanced journey through the world of women’s labour. We don’t just meet a small-scale prospector here, but a range of female workers across domestic, civic, and commercial spheres.
Lisa Collyer is an author of two poetry collections, Gold Digger (2025) and How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up (2023) (the latter being short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award), and both published with Life Before Man Books.
In reading Lisa Collyer’s poetry collection, Gold Digger, I was struck by how she writes poems that are battle-line hardy, staunchly feminist, with a working-class sensibility and a gendered understanding of both out-of-home work and the domestic sphere
Lisa Collyer is a writer and educator in Boorloo. She is the author of the poetry collection, How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, which was short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award and is published with Gazebo Books/Life Before Man. She is widely published and was a recent writer in residence for City of Swan, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre, The National Trust of W.A. and W.A. Poets Inc.