Ross Gillett

In this powerful collection, Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape—traditional verse forms, carefully honed free verse, exploratory long sequences, and a wealth of shorter poems. He covers an equally wide range of experience: family and childhood, love and jealousy, and quietly metaphysical encounters with the energies of land, sea, sky, and weather. The sensibility revealed in these poems is...

This collection opens with a set of double-glazed windows, blasted by bushfire before they could even be installed, gazing only at "vistas of soil". The poems move through a series of landscapes, both internal and external, experiencing the elements in a quietly observant and sometimes poignant voice. We are eventually led up into the clouds, where we are invited to...