Oystercatcher One: 101 Poems

This collection reflects the vitality and diversity of contemporary Australian poetry.  The 101 poems it contains  range from the witty and irreverent to the sublime.  There are poems that deal with internal struggles and private pain, and poems that look outward to environmental, political and social challenges; poems of joy, poems of suffering and poems of moments of quiet satisfaction; poems of tenderness and affection, and poems of anger; poems of youth and poems of age; poems that celebrate the beauty of the natural world, and poems that navigate the streets of our cities.

There is no theme to this collection.  What binds it together is the poets’ belief that through poetry we can come to experience more deeply our lives and those of others, and the world we inhabit; and through poetry we can communicate that experience more truthfully.