New poetry collection out now!
I am delighted to share that a new poetry collection, From the Mist, is now available.
Kookaburras welcome a broken poet home, and jacarandas weep with her and her community in sorrow, grief, and lament. Through deaths and losses, the poet emerges, cat-like, again into life. Spirited, soulful, storied: the poems in From the Mist, Sarah Agnew’s fifth collection, invite the reader to enter and reflect on the riches of life through raw honesty, wry, slantwise humour, and deep, joy-filled gratitude.
Enjoy some previews, to whet your appetite. While you wait for your copy to arrive – Get it here!
On women’s words
Spiritual, but not
peek behind the book to some early versions of poems I’ve polished for their new home:
Words of affirmation for From the Mist:
full of heart, arteries woven around seasons where, sunlight flicks the surface ripples, and veins running through the body of humanity, the giving, the guilty, the loved and the lonely.
a crafted collection of intimate poems, many of which express familiar Australian landscapes, metaphors and relational themes. Yet then, almost out the blue, a depth of grief and poignancy hits the reader in the midriff, pointing us toward our often unspoken vulnerabilities or ‘fragilities.’
Agnew’s poems speak truths, question truths, keenly observe humankind in homes and in nature, in relationships and minds, in the bleak, or sunshine, here and there and now.
