AustLit

'Mark d’Arbon is a retired academic who has spent the greater part of his adult life teaching in a wide range of settings, including a couple of years in Papua New Guinea. He has been writing poetry for many of those forty years, having poems published in a variety of anthologies. The first collection of his own poems was published in 2018, titled Veranda People. This second collection is more reflective and has as its core theme aspects of life and the impact of death, although there is a sufficiently eclectic spread of poems not to make this book so depressing that you have to put it down in order to have a good cry.' (Publication summary)

'For me, poetry is observational and emerges from personal experience. This book contains a selection of poems that I have written over the years - a kind of distillation of things I have seen that have moved me, interspersed with poems that I simply like. You may notice that a significant number of the poems are to do with various aspects of the ocean and the coast. That's because I am intimately connected to it; and although my bones are beginning to creak, I still surf and am endlessly fascinated by the changeability of the ocean and the exquisite complexity of the interaction between waves, rocks and sand. I hope you enjoy these poems.' (Publication summary)

'Linger over the words and voices of poets as they feather out phrases to lift us into the musicality and wonderment of verse. The love and lyricism of language is deeply embedded in the vagaries and vignettes of life. Imagination floats on the wings of poetry...' (Oriel Parker)