Eye

Eye is a love letter/memoir dedicated to a life in Australia, from a dreary, strike and blackout-riven UK to an angry but lively post-Whitlam autopsy in a progressive school in South Gippsland in 1976.

It's in four parts each referencing photographic terms to support the idea of how a place looks from an outsider's perspective. Some poems chronicle travels to the outback, Tasmania and Far North Queensland, observing the natural world and our place in it. Some pay tribute to personalities and artists who've provided inspiration over the years and others make observations on political and personal events, with the main themes transience, loss and mortality.