Felicity Plunkett

An outstanding collection from one of Australia's most highly regarded poets. A Kinder Sea is Felicity Plunkett's masterpiece in the original sense of that term—the work that most fully expresses her gifts. This collection explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. It is composed of sequences—love letters, elegies, narratives and odes. Plunkett's combination of intensity and range is rare,...

Vanishing Point opens with a surreal vision of creativity and mourning and returns to the flakes of desire, memory and dreams. By turns witty, vulnerable and passionate, Vanishing Point traces the currents of the imagination and the erotic and builds a narrative about human making and resilience. Taking in poetry, physics, birth and medicine, these poems intimately chart the life...