Böcker av Thérèse Corfiatis

Two women. Two poets. Two countries. One man. Therese Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania; Britta Stenberg lives in Rentjarn, Sweden - two women joined in friendship by Tom Langston, who introduced them to each other long distance, during a trip to Sweden. This collaboration is a tribute to his memory. This evocative collection written over the course of a year, from opposite ends of the earth, holds a fervent hope for readers to discover a moment caught in time.

Therese Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone on Tasmania's beautiful north-west coast. Her passion for the natural world, its shape, substance and light - 'a heaviness of bent colour / an arcing over of gold' ('Acacia Avenues') - and her exploration of the human condition - 'our love and longing / is rolled tight, like a ball' ('Thoughts on a Mother's Birthday') - offer moments in time that she hopes resonate for her readers.

Therese Corfiatis seeks out beauty and spirit in simple things: the curl of a wave, the flight of cockatoos ';yellow-flecked tails flashing / like airborne sunflowers' (';Black Cockatoos'). She searches for ancestral homeland and belonging ';my dispossession torn away / a birthing wound healed up' (';The Bridge at Cskrkos') and presents them to the reader with wonder, honesty and freshness.

The poems selected in this book taken from Therese Corfiatis's four published books, and a Pocket Poet convey striking images of landscape, childhood, travel and place. Some of the poems have a mystical element. Colour, light and sound weave together the threads of human experience. This book resonates with a multitude of richness gathered over the years, and offers the reader insights into fundamental values reflecting our world.