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New Release
It was always too late. The life you had
in mind was freer and fuller of time.
But what did you know back then? The new beginning
You keep meaning to make is already well begun. It crowds
Around you: every native and exotic species.
It’s not a way out
You need; it’s a way more deeply in. Love
Doesn’t mean you to stop;
it doesn’t want you to stint—
just to stay. To wait. Sometimes forever.
“Sublime, tender & almost holy, these poems allow us ‘at last, to stand in the light of the world’.”
— Ali Whitelock
“This intimate collection of poems is a profound journey of the senses. Exquisite ceremonies of observation, meditation, and wonder.”
— Didi Jackson
A Beginner’s Guide is Tredinnick’s fifth collection, a keystone in his body of work so far. This is a big book—a book of weight, but also of levity and light. A Beginner’s Guide is a culmination of decades of writing, teaching and publishing; these are lyric poems from a master of the craft, one of the leading poets of the day.
Awake to the Rest of My Days, by Kevin Smith
Morning strolls the horizon, folding
up clouds and putting them into the sky’s
blue wardrobes. I’ve woken to the rest of my days...
These poems hit the lyric sweet-spot... Buy this book and read them aloud for their speech music—you won't be disappointed.
— Steve Armstrong
Kevin Smith catches the lyric of places and carries it to you in vivid imagery and elegant rhythms. He writes sons and lovers and fathers and mothers as if they were places you’d rather be, and he writes landscapes as if they were family.
These poems remind us what poetry is for.
— Mark Tredinnick
Awake to the Rest of My Days is the debut collection from QLD-based poet Kevin Smith. These are fine, accomplished, and tender lyric poems that explore our relationship to people and place with honesty, humour and deep insight.
Popular Release
A new collection by Australian poet Mark Tredinnick, OAM (Birdfish Books, 2020).
The poems weave a journey through grief and loss into healing and transformation, speaking to themes of family and parenthood in a landscape of ecological awareness and tenderness.
