Tired of looking out the same window for 18 months, she said her creative juices ran dry until April this year.<\/p>\n
Between lockdowns, she took off with her partner and some family members, heading north to Uluru, then across the Simpson Desert (now known as Munga-Thirri) to Birdsville.<\/p>\n
This was not Maclean’s first time to the desert or to the outback but she said seeing the Rock, the Painted Desert in South Australia and crossing the inland sea across salt lakes began to fire her imagination.<\/p>\n
She assembled two small collections of road trip poems based on her travels to Central Australia and to Cape York, and both were published by Ginninderra Press this year.<\/p>\n