AustLit

'Most of these poems were written between 2012 and 2015 and reflect life in the City of Yarra, where I work, and through which I often walk. The window of my office looked directly out at Atherton Gardens, so that building and the people in it and the streets around it have been at the centre of my thoughts. I have avoided trying to speak for any actual person, but instead to think of the situations and observations of a variety of characters. The sequence is, above all, an homage to an area of Melbourne and the people who live in it. '  (Publication summary)