AustLit

'As this poetry soars over the many continents of Tineke Van der Eeken's life, it repeatedly reveals places to land. It is fascinating terrain: with unflinching honesty she tracks love's tenacity and trauma's residue. Her range of subjects is vast, born of lived experience. But although they encompass the panoptic gaze of a visionary scanning past and future, these poems delight in the discipline of detail, forensic and personal. A virtuoso linguist, this poet remains accessible and enjoyable.' (Publication summary)