AustLit

'Reading Alice Savona’s Self ie feels a bit like taking a vacation inside a palindrome. It’s a wonderful escape, albeit sometimes fraught with all the rocking movement, backwards and forwards, until you aren’t sure what the runes and symbols that make up the words even mean anymore. The deconstructionist postmodern poetics are evocative and relentless throughout Self ie and the self-awareness threaded throughout the entirely intentional linguistic activity is at times dazzling to the point of dizzying.' (Introduction)

'There is always something exciting about witnessing a poet’s decisive use of the full field of the page. Savona’s postmodern poetics are technically brilliant and thoroughly wry, playful and incisive in their focus on breakage, division and conjoining – physically in the bodies of the poems, and metaphorically in the voices and bodies of her speakers. Self ie is a confident and exuberant collection of self-exploration and exploration of how and why we make meaning out of our lives, adding another distinctive and important voice to UWA Publishing’s poetry series.' (Introduction)