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Joanne Van Leerdam

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Poetry, Horror, Fiction

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Tennyson, Whitman, Bronte, Poe, Dickinson, Paterson, Lawson.

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Joanne Van Leerdam is a poet and author of short stories. Her body of work consists of aix poetry collections, one general short story collection, a play, four collections of horror short stories, and a contribution to several anthologies.

When she's not writing, Joanne is a teacher of English, History and Drama/Production. She is an active member and performer in her local theatre company.
Her hobbies include reading, photography, and music.

She is proud to be both an Australian and an honorary Canadian.

She does like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18: An Expression of Grief

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm’d,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:But thy eternal summer shall not […]

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