from this mourning
In its queer feminist perspective from this mourning finds torque in love’s aftermath, in violence survived, and in vistas of much wider disaster from this war-torn and ecocidally threatened world, to recover a degree of wonder, or at least, endurance. Through the metamorphic pull of language, the speakers here find myriad other voices and incarnations.
Bodies of water offer amniotic nurture for new emergences: the poems draw escape routes and exhilarating new connections via motifs of fabulous identification and transformation – from termite, bird, emperor gum caterpillar, leopard, through to foil-winged angels and albino-finned mermen – whereby, even in radical expulsion, the personae find imaginative, and even exhilarating, modes of resistance.
