at Terramungamine

Description

Inspired by Ted Hughes’s Elmet, Di Sylvester’s second poetry pamphlet juxtaposes poems of place with photographs—photographs taken on a return to the place where she was born and spent her very early years, Dubbo, on the Western Plains of New South Wales.

The poems explore the imaginings to which these photographs gives rise—imaginings of long-vanished spears at Terramungamine, of ironbark woundings at Whylandra Crossing, of a young queen dangling on a wall in Old Dubbo Gaol, of women concealed in a gigantic stores depot; imaginings of one who feels a connection to this wonderful place, but has very little experience of it.

Di Sylvester writes poems and short stories. She lives on Gundungurra country in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Sydney and an MA (Creative Writing) from The Open University (UK). Di is a keen jigsaw puzzler.

Product details
ISBN: 978-0-6459294-0-9
Published: June 2024
Pages: 18
Cover: paperback
Weight: 85 grams
Dimensions: 148 mm (w) x 210 mm (h) x 3 mm (thick)
Printed & bound in Australia

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