AustLit

'These poems are concerned with the way in which language can thicken our experience, even as that experience becomes attenuated through age and through an increasing distance from a complex and alienating modern urban environment.' Back cover.

As the title of this book suggests, these poems are concerned with the way in which language can thicken our experience, even as that experience becomes attenuated through age, and increasingly ensconced within a complex and modern urban environment. This is a moving collection, which develops from the edge of everything and moves towards a comprehensive summation of a poetic sensibility preoccupied with its transience.