For print copies of my short story and poetry collections, see below.
That zero year
978 0 9808136 1 6, Poetry, 24pp.
Co-written by Andrew Phillips. Includes delivery in Australia. Please contact Tiggy for international shipping rates.
Co-written by Andrew Phillips. Includes delivery in Australia. Please contact Tiggy for international shipping rates.
A$
11.00
From the sudden weight of Thirteen weeks to the biting complaints of Fishing, That zero year screams with joy. These poems form a dialogue of love and loss; unpicking stitches in the family weave to welcome us to the bedside table of these most private moments. Here, we witness breath-taking devastation – the missing knee in the chest, the remembered rub of a belly – and wide-eyed wonder – a smile wriggled through to the toes. That zero year is an unflinching celebration of breath and blood. Phillips and Johnson know what it is to be alive and we are richer for it.
Graham Nunn
This collection is like an unsuspecting orientation manual, uniting what appears to be uncomplicated materials, recognisable motifs, familiar situations and mapped out structures but, in all reality, holds the weight of ten sinking cities and leads me back to that Talking Heads lyric, ‘how did I get here?’
Pascalle Burton
As reflections on domestic life and the intimacy of family, these are fine poems. But as portraits of loss, love, and grief, and of what happens in the months and years that follow tragedy, they are vivid, unflinching, and beautiful.
Michelle Dicinoski
That zero year was reviewed by Phillip Ellis here.
Graham Nunn
This collection is like an unsuspecting orientation manual, uniting what appears to be uncomplicated materials, recognisable motifs, familiar situations and mapped out structures but, in all reality, holds the weight of ten sinking cities and leads me back to that Talking Heads lyric, ‘how did I get here?’
Pascalle Burton
As reflections on domestic life and the intimacy of family, these are fine poems. But as portraits of loss, love, and grief, and of what happens in the months and years that follow tragedy, they are vivid, unflinching, and beautiful.
Michelle Dicinoski
That zero year was reviewed by Phillip Ellis here.
First taste
978 0 9808136 0 9, Poetry, 32pp.
Includes delivery in Australia. Please contact Tiggy for international shipping rates.
Includes delivery in Australia. Please contact Tiggy for international shipping rates.
A$
12.50
First Taste is brimming with domestic luminosity. These poems explore the terrain of love and desire, parent and child, ecstasy and death and reveal the depth of Johnson's voice. Her poems teach us not only to accept, but to feel blessed by the complexity of humanity, the terrible mysteries of life. You will not forget 'The facts' nor that 'first taste of butterscotch sauce'. Johnson renders her secrets in language vivid and strong.’ – Graham Nunn
‘Tiggy has pierced my heart, with butterscotch sauce... her poems are both earthy and ravishing. Uplifting, voracious words with a side of suburban voltage. Love it.’ – Alicia Sometimes
‘With a heart pierced by butterscotch sauce, Tiggy Johnson introduces us to the joys and perils of daily life – what it means to be a woman, partner and parent amid birth and death, memory and loss, coffee and cake with citrus tang. And in considering the bitter-sweet, it’s as if this, her first collection, still comes out wearing its own Life-Be-In-It t-shirt. She is a straight-talking emerging poet with a vision all her own.’ – Nathan Curnow
First taste was reviewed on Literary Minded by Derek Motion.
‘Tiggy has pierced my heart, with butterscotch sauce... her poems are both earthy and ravishing. Uplifting, voracious words with a side of suburban voltage. Love it.’ – Alicia Sometimes
‘With a heart pierced by butterscotch sauce, Tiggy Johnson introduces us to the joys and perils of daily life – what it means to be a woman, partner and parent amid birth and death, memory and loss, coffee and cake with citrus tang. And in considering the bitter-sweet, it’s as if this, her first collection, still comes out wearing its own Life-Be-In-It t-shirt. She is a straight-talking emerging poet with a vision all her own.’ – Nathan Curnow
First taste was reviewed on Literary Minded by Derek Motion.
Svetlana or otherwise
Ginninderra Press, 978 1 74027 461 6, Short stories, 70pp
Includes postage in Australia. Please contact Tiggy for international shipping rates.
Includes postage in Australia. Please contact Tiggy for international shipping rates.
A$
12.50
'Tiggy's is a new voice with a refreshingly domestic bent. From controlled crying and the quiet relief of a cup of tea, to pregnancy tests gone wrong; from neighbourly suspicion, to the suspicion that can tear relationships apart, Tiggy is writing about the everyday, the things we know, and, most importantly, the things we know we should know better. It is energising to read a writer who understands the importance of life's details, and who celebrates the small moments of decision and indecision that take us from day's beginning to day's end.' - Louise Swinn, Sleeper’s Publishing
'Her tight, clean sentences are a pleasure to read and keep our attention.' - The Age
'Johnson has a fine grasp of the form in both a commercial and an artistic sense.' - Literary Minded
See link below for a review of Svetlana or otherwise from The Age 16 Feb 2008.
'Her tight, clean sentences are a pleasure to read and keep our attention.' - The Age
'Johnson has a fine grasp of the form in both a commercial and an artistic sense.' - Literary Minded
See link below for a review of Svetlana or otherwise from The Age 16 Feb 2008.
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