A collection of writing that explores women’s relationships with themselves, their families and lovers, their dogs, and the natural world. It contains poems about the powerlessness and broken trusts of childhood in the section Bruises on Brand New Hearts, and searing poems about loss and love in “Caring for the Wound(ed)”. It also includes the award-winning “North Wind Cycle” that is an elegy to the lost and forgotten histories of female ancestries.

What reviewers have said:

The lines of her poems are pared down, sharpening language like a knife

~ Misbah Khokhar Australian Women’s Book Review

thought-provoking and eloquent

~ Stephen Lawrence Wet Ink

contain(s) beautiful imagery to tell stories of love and death and all things life.

~ Nicki Bullock Entrophy

for all lovers of serious poetry.

~ Anna Solding SAETA