Inside Out

It seems inevitable now
we should have stolen from that scene
something rare like a golden bough -
something more than sheer impressions.
So it was …

Inside out … outside in … ('exactly as they were meant to be'), Syd Harrex's second collection of poems leads the reader through a diversity of locations and situations. From the familiarity of walking in the Clare Valley or exploring Kangaroo Island, we travel to London, Dublin and on to the tropical reaches of steamy, rain-drenched Jamaica, of anthropomorphic Hawaii and South India.

The range of experience, spontaneous and meditated, is complemented by a corresponding variety of form, style and tone. Fresh, whimsical insights lighten more sombre philosophical undertones as the poet invites us to fathom and enjoy the ironies of everyday experience.