Book description
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection
sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the
found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma
Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of
vividly distilled meetings - of settlers and indigenous peoples, of
seawaters and shore, of humanity and the wilds of nature. Here, tigers
stalk the captive and the free, while Death encounters his own double
and Daphne tells of her new leaves, 'They sing, and make the world.'
The same might be said of the poems themselves in this restless and
memorable search for belonging.
Emma Jones was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She holds a
Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in English
from the University of Cambridge. In 2005 she won the Newcastle Poetry
Prize, Australia's largest prize for a single poem, and has been the
recipient of an emerging writer's grant from the Australia Council for
the Arts, and the Harper-Wood Studentship in English Poetry and
Literature from St John's College, Cambridge.
