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…
Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive muscles and shines a light on Australia's unreconciled past and precarious present with humour…
Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh author Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language, land, van Neerven flexes their muscles and shines a light on Australia's unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Uns…
A series of poems covering the author's views on nature and her travels around the globe. Illustrated with the photos taken by her husband, Mike Temple.
This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here - "Indigeneities", "Political Landscapes", "Space, Place, Materiality", "Revising an Australian Mythos" - mode…
New directions in contemporary Australian poetry?, Dan Disney & Matthew Hall -- Our poetic-justice, Natalie Harkin -- The intimacy in survival poetics, Ellen van Neerven -- Response to Natalie Harkin: a labor of love, Jeanine Leane -- All the trees, Peter Minter -- Just poetry, …
This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here - "Indigeneities", "Political Landscapes", "Space, Place, Materiality", "Revising an Australian Mythos" - mode…
This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here - "Indigeneities", "Political Landscapes", "Space, Place, Materiality", "Revising an Australian Mythos"--Model…
"At the heart of this .. debut collection is the impulse to explore: family history in Europe, migration to Australia, the contours of memory and desire. Exquisite lyrics and deft narrative illuminate history's mosaics and brilliant shards of lost time"--Cover.
A circle of vermillion flares into petals of yellow and white. These colored tesserae, a contrast to the dull sea of roof tiles below. A train rattles in the distance and then Rapallo fades from my memory. At the heart of this exciting debut collection is the impulse to explore:…