Anna Couani



Anna Couani (born 6 April 1948) is a contemporary Australian poet and teacher.

Anna Couani was born and grew up in Sydney. She studied architecture at the University of Sydney, then took an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Technology Sydney. Since the 70s she has participated in feminist activism, small press publishing and has taught art, English and ESL at secondary schools. A concern with marginalised aspects of women's lives runs throughout her writing. The novel The Western Horizon was serialised in HEAT from 1996 to 2000 and is now available online.

Poetry

 * Italy (Clifton Hill, Vic: Ragman Productions, 1977).
 * Italy and the Train). Melbourne: Rigmorale Books, 1983.
 * The Harbour Breathes Glebe, NSW and Burwood, Vic: Sea Cruise Books and Masterthief, 1989. ISBN 978-0-908152-14-8

Fiction

 * Were all Women Sex-mad? & Other stories. Melbourne : Rigmarole, 1982. ISBN 978-0-909229-19-1

Edited

 * Island in the Sun : An anthology of recent Australian prose with Damien White & Tom Thompson (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) ISBN 978-0-908172-01-6
 * Island in the Sun 2: An anthology of recent Australian prose with Damien White (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) ISBN 978-0-908152-09-4
 * Telling Ways: Australian women's experimental writing with Sneja Gunew (Adelaide : Australian Feminist Studies, 1988) ISBN 978-0-86396-068-0