Description
Poetry. "THE ONLY WHITE LANDSCAPE shows the effort to think in time with the imperfection of language as it nudges into consciousness and out of order; as it turns into itself as if on a pin or because of some new patch of petrol-, Pantone-, mid-morning light. The poems are scenes of ambivalence and loss, moving between states of recollection and projection, regret and desire, clarity and obscurity. Like a break-up, or a film, or a dream, or a recipe, they occupy a temporality that appears like a future imagined in a past, and lamented as a present that crushes." —Astrid Lorange
Author Bio
Derek Motion lives in Narrandera, in the Western Riverina region of NSW, and writes. He was the winner of the 2009 Judith Wright Overland Poetry Prize. His first collection, Lollyology, was published in 2012. His blog, typingspace, is still in existence. The need to distill life and thought into poetry has been with him a while now and it seems to have settled in permanently.
Author City: Sydney AUS