AustLit

'MORNING LIGHT, Gayelene Carbis’s second book of poetry, continues the scenes and preoccupations of her debut collection Anecdotal Evidence : childhood memories, lovers, therapy, Carnegie, poetry and confession — though with the difference this time that she is well into her stride, more sure of her voice, and more able to push ideas and images beyond autobiography into that slightly surreal, sometimes whimsical, often heartbreaking territory of the poem that sings even as it laments, that can bring artfulness and authenticity into communion, and balances itself on a knife-edge of irony.'(Publication summary)