Poetry by Camille Delaquise

Selected poems by Camille Delaquise, spanning Behind the Façade, RISE, The Precipice, and other published and standalone works.

This archive brings together poems by Camille Delaquise, a Melbourne poet whose work moves between the intimate and the political, the reflective and the urgent. Across her collections, Delaquise writes on climate, feminism, democracy, truth, inequality, power, and the complexities of modern life. Browse the archive by book, theme, or poem title, and explore a body of contemporary poetry shaped by conscience, clarity, and feeling.

By Book

Read poems from Camille’s three major collections:

• Behind the Façade

• RISE

• The Precipice

Listed by Themes

About Camille Delaquise, Australian Female Poet

Camille Delaquise is an Australian female poet writing with nerve, tenderness and a fierce eye for what lives beneath the surface. Her work belongs to the pulse of contemporary poetry — alive to beauty, rupture, longing, defiance and the strange theatre of modern life. From intimate reckonings to wider social fault lines, her poems refuse the ornamental and reach instead for something true: a language of feeling, conscience and awakening. This archive gathers the work of a contemporary Australian poet unafraid to be vulnerable, unafraid to be sharp, and unafraid to make poetry that leaves a mark.