What is Near

[P]oems like delicate essays, in the sense of attempts—circling, being-with, tentative and tender […] poems like seed heads, fragility and delicacy, balanced, a symmetry […] seeding more thinking [… a tender] engagement with moss, air, horizon, the political, the scientific, the human, the non-human and the spaces-between where these things meet. The space on the page, within the poems, and between the poet writing and the world observed, is so delicately balanced.

— Dr. Kim Lasky

slow build

inside/outside

what is left unsaid

what is beneath

what is noticed

what is undeclared

what evolves, enmeshes, becomes, denies

visual—like camouflage

like a movement—eyes dance on page, not sure where to go

feeling accumulate through pattern of words – many unsaid, but felt

What is near talks about what is far—deep time—what is within—unsaid

earth suffering earth joy, despite it all

— Chris Drury

[an exploration of] the political, the specifics of natural things (eg. birds, moss, trees, landscape), boundaries and spaces; and the sense of place, all with sensuality and infinite sensitivity, including the self and its relationship to nature. We were especially aware of how [the poems] handle the very contemporary sense of language with all its problems of reference [exploring] the interconnectedness of all things through linguistic and visual means.

— Professor Peter Abbs & Dr. Lisa Dart