The Non-Sequitur of Snow

$25.00 inc GST

Product Description

Moving non-chronologically through youth and maturity, dreamscapes and time, Shari Kocher’s long-awaited first collection charges the elusive music of cross-generational song-lines—mothers and daughters, daughters and grandmothers, lovers and kin—with the invisibles and intangibles of two decades spent honing her craft. This is a book about breathing. It is also about the changing contours of the journey home, even when the ground of what is meant by home seems most absent, impossible or undone. Rooted in place, yet animated by the immaterial, these poems breathe a body of living and loving alive.

REVIEWS

THE AUSTRALIAN

“Written with Adrienne Rich and Rumi as apparent guides, Shari Kocher’s The Non-Sequit­ur of Snow… is very different again from the preceding­ three. Her poems for the most part are of a rare modesty and lightness. The two-page poem Strawberries, for example, narrates a story of a marriage proposal in a strawberry field — that the narrator’s lover doesn’t remember taking place — without becoming icky or indulgent. Clay presents a mother, son and grandmother together making clay angels for a nativity table. The grandmother “hasn’t visited in years”; a comment that creates a separation between the two women.”

MICHAEL FARRELL, The Australian

Reviews

Michael Farrell reviews The Non-Sequitur of Snow in The Australian

Reviews & Information on other Websites

Monica Carroll reviews The Non-Sequitur of Snow in TEXT

Siobhan Hodge reviews The Non-Sequitur of Snow in Cordite

Paula Green reviews The Non-Sequitur of Snow on her blog

Susan Fealy reviews The Non-Sequitur of Snow in Plumwood Mountain Review

Awards for this Author

The Non-Sequitur of Snow was Highly Commended in the 2015 Anne Elder Award.
“[…] a beautifully crafted and coherent collection that almost floats in its imaginative universe.”

‘Absent self-portrait’ shortlisted for the 2016 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize

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