Judith Nangala Crispin and Mark Tredinnick launch this important new book.

Jenny Pollak, whose poems have featured in many shortlists (ACU, Blake, Newcastle, others) over the past ten years, and who is a prize-winning photographer and sculptor, as well as a poet, launches her first solo collection of poems, Clarion, on Sunday 2 June at Gleebooks in Sydney. I met Jenny when she came to a creative writing masterclass of mine at the University of Sydney in, I think, 2011. I recognized before she did, the poetry in her voice and the quality in the poetry. This book includes Jenny’s photographs, alongside her poems; both fashion a lean and loving kind of Pittwater Book of the Dead, an in memoriam for a stand of sheoaks along the shore of the island Jenny inhabits in Pittwater, north of Sydney. But like all Jenny’s work, the poems-images dance their mourning, and a eulogy becomes a divination, a raising, of the fallen, broken body of the Beloved. But you can see what I thought of the book: my words, along with some from Sarah Rice and Judith Nangala Crispin, appear on the book, published by the wonderful Liquid Amber. And you can hear Judith and me read some of our work and speak about Jenny’s: we’re launching her together on Sunday. Come along, if Glebe is not too far for you to come.

“Clarion is an eco-poetic suite of words and images written and created by Australian artist and poet Jenny Pollak. It focuses on two extreme weather events since 2020 that decimated a small forest of casuarinas on the western foreshores of Pittwater, just north of Sydney. “

Book Here: https://gleebooks.com.au/event/jenny-pollak-clarion/