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Sun Wind and Diesel PB 80 PP 210 x 140 1862544190 $12.95 Poetry EAN 9781862543652 Wakefield Press Where, or rather how, does anyone belong? In this book, Miriel Lenore reflects on her life in two places – a Ngaanyatjarra community in the desert where she is a visitor, and her home in Adelaide with family and friends. To these people and places, she brings a sharp eye, her political and historical lenses and wry humour to create deceptively simple poems with many layered meanings. In her poems, the land always carries its complex and particular history, as she interweaves her reponses to the natural world with the deliberate relationships between people and the continuing effects of the past. Miriel Lenore’s spare, taut style, with its subtle voice rhythms, carries the strength and precariousness of someone who asks how she may begin to belong in the desert as her feet tell her she does in Adelaide. By the same author: |
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‘Anyhow it’s a poem.’ – Inya Langica, one of the community elders who gave permission for some people and places in their country to be named. ‘These thoughtful, sensitive and observant poems are a pleasure to read.’ – Lee Cataldi ‘The fineness and subtlety of Lenore’s perceptions annd the spareness of her style make this book a rare delight.’ – Marie Tulie |
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