AustLit

'Koel is Jen Crawford’s third poetry collection and it clearly demonstrates the development of a challenging but highly rewarding poetic voice. This is a poet both confident and experimental, who is pushing at the boundaries of place and movement, what is remembered and an immersive present tense, the human subject and the ‘environment’, what we know and what we don’t. In the preface, Crawford suggests: ‘I was looking for gaps to step through, for ways both forward and back’. Koel catapaults the reader through these gaps of uncertainty and possibility.'  (Introduction)