Kathryn Lomer

How does light look when left entirely to itself? If you look into an empty box full of light and the light is not reflected on surfaces, you will see blackness. Only when there is an object for the light to fall upon can we see the presence of light. Light and shadow, love and loss, the extraordinary and the...

What Now, Tilda B? by Kathryn Lomer introduces us to Tilda Braint, who is nearly 16, restless, and having trouble figuring out what on earth she's supposed to do next. Living in a small coastal town doesn't help either. However, when two seals land in the middle of Tilda's life, they turn it upside down. These seals are a long...

Even the titles thrum, so that the index reads like a suite of small poems. Kathryn Lomer's is a house with many rooms, Wunderkammers all, filled with curious objects drawn from the worlds of art, science, nature, love, life, death... everything. Supple lines and sensitive rhythms make surprising conjunctions, often leading us from the smallest detail of a beloved's body...

In Two Kinds of Silence, Kathryn Lomer explores natural as well as inner landscapes and turns her full focus of attention to things somatic, linguistic, tidal, seasonal, geographical, even floral. Her writing roves from kitchen to coast, Tasmania to Ethiopia. This collection is an exciting follow-up to Extraction of Arrows, her award-winning first collection of poems.

Claire's childhood is shaped by the Tasmanian farm she knows and loves. As an ex-POW, her father has struggled to return to a normal life through working the farm, and Claire has always assumed she will run the property herself one day. When there appears to be little chance of that, she looks elsewhere for an understanding of self and...