Join us at Readings Carlton as Chris Wallace-Crabbe launches Lisa Jacobson’s new verse novel. The Sunlit Zone is a moving elegy of love and loss, admirable for its narrative sweep and the family dynamic that drives it. A risk-taking work of rare, imaginative power.

‘This novel in verse, at once magical and irresistible, draws us into a vivid future. In Lisa Jacobson’s telling, the Australian fascination with salt water and sea change is made over anew. Romance holds hands with science and takes to the ocean.’ Chris Wallace-Crabbe, author of The Domestic Sublime and By and Large.

Lisa Jacobson was recently awarded the 2011 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and an Australia Council Grant to complete her next poetry collection. Her work is represented in Heinemann’s Best Short Stories (U.K.), Peter Porter’s The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse, Robert Adamson’s The Best Australian Poems 2010 and Adrian Hyland’s Kinglake 350. The manuscript of The Sunlit Zone was shortlisted for the 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.