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'A collection, written in English and Scots, that explores immigration, home and place.
''When I first left my home, the gnawing ache for all I'd left behind - family, friends, my land, my whole life - made me numb and thrawn. Weeping and sobbing - bubblin an greetin, as you would call it in Scotland - would have been too wet and hand-wringy. What I felt was bone-dry and primal; I wanted to drop to my knees, throw my head back and howl. I pined like an animal, without tears.' — Alison Flett
''The people could be poet, family, reader or all of us on this drowning, burning earth. The present could be this moment, or a past so intensely remembered, or a future so powerfully imagined that past, present and future are simultaneously here. We are with a poet who knits intricate patterns of sound and image, line to line.' — Duncan McLean' (Publication summary)
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Itchy Feet : New Poetry from Alison Flett and Hazel Smith
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Where We Are 2022 selected work poetry ; Ecliptical 2022 selected work poetry prose 'Hazel Smith’s ecliptical features an image of a Sieglinde Karl-Spence work of art, ‘Becoming’, a pair of ‘winged feet woven with allocasuarina needles’. It is a striking image, evocative of Mercury, with one foot resting on the other, as if the right foot’s instep is itchy. The idea of ‘itchy feet’ is something that ties ecliptical to Alison Flett’s Where We Are. Flett and Smith are both migrants to Australia; their poetry is sensitive to its site of writing, and to international and interpersonal connections.' (Introduction)
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Itchy Feet : New Poetry from Alison Flett and Hazel Smith
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Where We Are 2022 selected work poetry ; Ecliptical 2022 selected work poetry prose 'Hazel Smith’s ecliptical features an image of a Sieglinde Karl-Spence work of art, ‘Becoming’, a pair of ‘winged feet woven with allocasuarina needles’. It is a striking image, evocative of Mercury, with one foot resting on the other, as if the right foot’s instep is itchy. The idea of ‘itchy feet’ is something that ties ecliptical to Alison Flett’s Where We Are. Flett and Smith are both migrants to Australia; their poetry is sensitive to its site of writing, and to international and interpersonal connections.' (Introduction)
