Coral Hull – May 12 2019

International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Week – May 12-18 2019

Coral is a poet, writer, photographer, editor, and publisher. Author of over 30 books, her poetry in particular has been extensively published in journals and anthologies, studied in schools and universities and featured on radio stations including ABC Radio National. Coral holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts, a Master of Arts and a Doctorate of Creative Arts and has lectured and read poetry at various venues, festivals and conferences both in Australia and internationally. Her other published poetry includes In the Dog Box of Summer (in Hot Collation), Broken Land (5 Days In Bre), Holy City, Rose Street Archeology, A Crocodile’s Daydream and Coral Hull: Collected Poems: 1986-2001. Her collaborations include Zoo (poetry) with John Kinsella and Voices from the Dark (prose) with Sandy Jeffs. Coral’s areas of special interest have been in ethics, animal rights, autism, consciousness, multiplicity, metaphysics and the paranormal. Concerned with issues of social justice and spirituality from an early age, Coral wrote her first poem about a rainforest at age 13. In 2003, she suddenly became very ill and was diagnosed with CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) which left her bedridden for years. In 2004 she discovered she had MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) and in 2005 she was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In mid 2009 Coral was also diagnosed with osteoarthritis.

William’s Mongrels (published in The Wild Life)
Penguin Books Australia, 1996; ISBN 9780140587692
Coral’s second collection of poetry is published here with ‘Dovchick’ (David Curzon), ‘Black market’ (Philip Hammial) and ‘Islands of wilderness: a romance’ (Stephen Oliver).
‘… a uniquely Australian voice. [Coral] is more at home with the Australian environment than any poet I know, other than Indigenous poets such as Lionel Fogarty …. Hull takes to suburbs the same critical eye she uses when writing of nature; things are explored up close.’ – John Kinsella, The Newer Australian Poetry
‘… an outstanding Australian poet …. no-one in Australian poetry can match Hull’s own commitment to analysing one’s life, history, and condition.’ – Neil Boyack, Stralian Stories – Coral Hull: the patron saint of Australian poetry

How Do Detectives Make Love?
Penguin Books Australia, 1998; ISBN 9780140587685
Of writing Detectives, Coral has said, “I was in great pain and struggle when I wrote ‘detectives’. My writing was primarily about overcoming, but I wanted more than to hang on by a thread along the bare bones of survival. I wanted to flourish and be of the light.” (David Prater interview, Cordite)
‘… any writer serious about their craft needs to investigate [Coral] as a priority …. Sometimes you need to read her lines three times to work out the power behind her word combinations. Other times you want to hug Coral Hull, one human to another, in response to the disruption and the personal pain she describes so evocatively, or simply in thanks for what she has offered the world.’ – Neil Boyack, Stralian Stories – Coral Hull: the patron saint of Australian poetry