Gina Mercer

Pardalote Press

RRP: $20.00 PB 68 pp

An outstanding collection. These are poems of brilliant directness and lucidity, poems with a strong and compelling female voice, utterly unafraid. One reads such a collection as one reads a novel: to discover, sometimes with alarming intimacy, who the writer is and what she can tell us about the difficult business of living in the world. For any reader, it’s moving, honest, human, memorable. For the connoisseur, it’s poetry moving at a high level of grace and definition: a major collection announcing a poet’s full maturity. Peter Bishop, Creative Director, Varuna