Patricia Sykes is a poet and librettist. Her poems and collections have received various awards and have featured on the ABC’s Poetica and The Spirit of Things. Her collaborations with composer Liza Lim have been performed in Australia, Paris, Germany, Russia, New York and the UK. She was Asialink Writer in Residence Malaysia, 2006. A song cycle by Andrew Aronowicz, based on her poetry collection, The Abbotsford Mysteries, is available as podcast.