A new collection of poetry from one of Australia's finest writers.
"[Lily Brett's poems] are something quite amazing... Intensely wrought, artistically, yet pure and direct and real and life-size." (Ted Hughes on The Auschwitz Poems)
Like her previous poetry collections, Lily Brett's Blistered Days is a powerful and moving experience. In the author's words, "It embraces the exuberance of life and the tragedy, the absurdity and the pain." Rich with the noise, rhythm, soul and sorrow of post-9/11, 21st century New York, Lily's sixth book of poetry soars as high as the Twin Towers and digs as deep as the most subterranean of the city's subway lines. Vibrant, urgent, savage at times, but still so beautiful – and so human.
