Glut

Ramona Herdmans Glut is a lush, entertaining, and bittersweet collection of poems about how we live together and find meaning through rules and rituals around food, family, alcohol, work, nature, sex and love. These vividly-realised, nimble poems probe at the delicate balancing acts we our bodies and our minds perform in life: between power and trust, between convention and rebellion, and between what is enough and what is too much. All the time, Herdmans spry poetry keeps a gimlet eye on our impulse to make sense of it all of how we live and work together, and what strategies will help us to navigate our way through the tangled undergrowth of negotiation and misunderstanding. Glut is a lustrous, darkly funny, open-hearted book on the distance between people, on satisfying appetites, and on seeking both pleasure and consolation.