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Following on from the success of their award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces themself as a talented poet with this intoxicating collection.
Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food explores identity, sovereignty and the restless quest for love. Using food as their inspiration, van Neerven offers a cross-cultural vision of the exotic and the familiar. This sensuous volume sets a new benchmark in contemporary Australian poetry.
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Following on from the success of their award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces themself as a talented poet with this intoxicating collection.
Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food explores identity, sovereignty and the restless quest for love. Using food as their inspiration, van Neerven offers a cross-cultural vision of the exotic and the familiar. This sensuous volume sets a new benchmark in contemporary Australian poetry.
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning author, editor and educator of Mununjali and Dutch heritage. They've written across poetry, nonfiction and fiction, and co-edited multiple anthologies.
Read beloved and emerging Australian poets like Judith Bishop, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Nam Le.
Read incredible poetry from First Nations Australians, including Evelyn Araluen, Tony Birch and Jazz Money.