say, a river - Schindler, Pam

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Résumé :
'Pam Schindler's say, a river proves the best poems don't have to shout. There is so much light in the brushstrokes of this painterly collection, in which Schindler washes private moments of grief and intimacy onto nature's liminal spaces. These are compact poems spinning into [their] own weather...

Biographie:
Pam Schindler is an award-winning Australian poet living by the sea in Blackmans Bay, Hobart, Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her work has appeared in Australian magazines and anthologies and in her two collections, A sky you could fall into (Brisbane: Post Pressed, 2010) and say, a river (Port Adelaide: Ginninderra Press, 2023). She graduated with an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Queensland and worked as a reference librarian at both the University of Tasmania and the University of Queensland. Pam is a Hawthornden Fellow, receiving a writer's residency at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, in 2013. In 2020, she was commended in the WB Yeats Prize (Australia). In 2021, she took part as one of 23 Tasmanian poets in the Poetry for a More Than Human World project, led by Kristen Lang. She was a featured poet in the 2024 Tasmanian Poetry Festival. In 2025, 'Say, A River' won the prestigious Tasmanian Literary 'Tim Thorne Poetry' Award....

Sommaire:
they are thin moon[s] cradling the dark.' - Zenobia Frost 'Here's a poet who is one of Australia's recording angels of the natural world, whose pen's an artist's brush, whose poems cut words on the clear air with the arrow-sure, effortless grace that comes only from mature craftsmanship. Her themes paint dimensions of love and loss on a frail canvas made new from lissom, nimble, honey-sharp words. We breathe in this beauty aware that underneath is a leonine strength and a bright deep knowing.' - Anne Kellas 'This softly-spoken collection shares the poet's contemplation of presence and absence. The reader is drawn close to poems that invite a reflective mind. Their power comes from the affectionate distillation of small details of the natural world and the deeply-felt experience of human relationships, love and loss, into direct and unselfconscious language. Having engaged her reader, Schindler steps aside and lets the words work their magic.' - Ynes Sanz...