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'This is a book of rare, complex beauty. Dearborn’s range is huge: from the mysteries and beauties of the molecular world to hard-earnt poems of family trauma, from complex love poems to a brilliant sequence based on the life of Virginia Woolf. Her miniatures – often small masterpieces – are built around deceptively simple but profound metaphors, the very bedrock of memorable poetry. Calmly intelligent on the surface, there is usually a fierce rip-tide beneath her work.
Peter Goldsworthy
'This is deep play at work – Dearborn’s intellect is displayed hand-in-hand with her remarkable ability to connect the disparate in entirely natural, surprising, and pleasurable ways.
Eileen Chong
'Dearborn’s trademark finely balanced, masterfully honed poems are vitally engaged with the world, and with our cycles of love and loss within it. Fans of hers will be delighted to find here the full-length versions of both her 22-poem sequence for the elements, ‘Autobiochemistry’, and the shorter but no less fabulous sequence on perimenopause, ‘The change: some notes from the field’. Dearborn understands that even a bald fact (scientific, medical, biographical), held and tilted just so in the right light, can sing with the resonance of dream. There are also nightmares here, as she deals deftly and devastatingly with childhood sexual trauma and the never-ending work of healing. A crucial and timely book.
Melinda Smith' (Publication summary)
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Positive Reaction When Science of Love Put in Words
2020
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 April 2020; (p. 18)'It’s extraordinary to think how swiftly our lives have been upended by coronavirus. Rewind the calendar a few months and we were spending our Saturday mornings having breakfast at cafes, or turning up for our favourite gym class or boot camp, or going to the beach with friends or to the shops for a wander, or any other number of social gatherings that make the weekend feel like a respite.'
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Not a Review : Tricia Dearborn's Autobiochemistry
2020
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— Appears in: Verity La , March 2020;
— Review of Autobiochemistry 2019 selected work poetry -
Committed to Memory
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of Autobiochemistry 2019 selected work poetry ; Keeper of the Ritual 2019 selected work poetry -
Condensed Lyricism : Ann Vickery Launches ‘Autobiochemistry’ by Tricia Dearborn
2019
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— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019; -
September in Poetry
2019
single work
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— Appears in: Overland [Online] , September 2019;
— Review of Autobiochemistry 2019 selected work poetry ; After the Demolition 2019 selected work poetry ; Fish Song 2019 selected work poetry ; AXIS : Book 2 2019 selected work poetry
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September in Poetry
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , September 2019;
— Review of Autobiochemistry 2019 selected work poetry ; After the Demolition 2019 selected work poetry ; Fish Song 2019 selected work poetry ; AXIS : Book 2 2019 selected work poetry -
Committed to Memory
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of Autobiochemistry 2019 selected work poetry ; Keeper of the Ritual 2019 selected work poetry -
Not a Review : Tricia Dearborn's Autobiochemistry
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , March 2020;
— Review of Autobiochemistry 2019 selected work poetry -
Condensed Lyricism : Ann Vickery Launches ‘Autobiochemistry’ by Tricia Dearborn
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019; -
Positive Reaction When Science of Love Put in Words
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 April 2020; (p. 18)'It’s extraordinary to think how swiftly our lives have been upended by coronavirus. Rewind the calendar a few months and we were spending our Saturday mornings having breakfast at cafes, or turning up for our favourite gym class or boot camp, or going to the beach with friends or to the shops for a wander, or any other number of social gatherings that make the weekend feel like a respite.'