Comfort food

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Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this luscious collection. Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food explores identity, sovereignty and the restless quest for love. Using food as her inspiration, van Neerven offers a cross-cultural vision of the exotic and the familiar. This sensuous volume sets a new benchmark in contemporary Australian poetry.

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Title Statements

Full title :Comfort food / Ellen van Neerven.

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Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Queensland Press
Place of Publication:St Lucia, Queensland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:83 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780702254055, 0702254053, 9780702257230, 0702257230
oclc:ocn935988474
LC Classification:PR9617.32
Dewey Decimal:A821.4

Whole lot -- Love and tradition -- Pinions -- Finger limes -- Generous.

Pasta -- Pie -- Bread -- Roo tails -- Prawn tails -- Tea -- Mango -- Pumpkin -- Chips -- Stamppot.

Coffee in Toronto -- Bagel -- Tamale -- Berries -- Ceremonial rice -- Cashew tree -- Smoking chutney -- Goan fish curry -- Comfort food.

Temptation -- Extra salt -- Real estate for writers -- Bricks and lightning -- Cousins -- Brother -- Climbers -- Bruns -- Subtitles -- Sweet note -- September -- Flight feathers -- At Musgrave -- Meteorite.

Lullaby for a shark -- Fault -- ETA -- Five-minute meals -- How my heart behaves -- Please pause today -- G20 free range -- We're still here -- Invisible spears -- Surfboards -- Spectra of birds.

Future senses -- Iris brides -- Stomach -- Soft shell -- Dalgay/Yugambeh death poem -- Coconut oil -- Buffalo milk.

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Australia Australian poetry Australian poetry -- 21st century Australian poetry -- Aboriginal Austral… Literature and stories - Poetry Literature and stories -- Authors Poésie australienne -- 21e siècle Poésie australienne -- Auteurs aborigèn… Poetry