WritingWA recommends…
Together, Vivienne Glance’s abstract, evocative short poems and Perdita Phillips’ equally evocative photographs create a shifting, unfolding narrative of the connection between place and mind. The photographs, taken at the moraine of a glacier, present a zone where the immutable grandeur of the environment might make the transience of human existence acceptable. As the final poem, from which the book’s title comes, says: “our presence here has no more meaning/than a melting crystal of ice/or a shadow on shattered mountain parts.” Images and words speak of to each other in this gorgeous book, suggesting sets of ideas which extend beyond its covers.
The West Australian, Today page 7 Tuesday May 29
A most perceptive summary of the book!
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