AustLit

'In his book Undersummer Graham Kershaw considers how “all that time and tides … set apart/only simple words can hope to reconnect”. Critically aware of time’s swift passing and “how frail the scaffolding of the day”, he presents clear-sighted reconnections, especially apparent in evocative poems about revisiting the Lancashire of his birth. Now resident near Denmark, WA, he reflects how he and his family have built “by southern seas the home we never left”. He is a poet of honesty and vulnerability, not one “to wear the world lightly” – which is tough on him but marvellous for poetry readers everywhere.' (Source : writingWA