Letters from China

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Hynes, Maureen

Community & Culture

Women's Educational Press

Rough Skin

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Wolsak & Wynn Pub Ltd

<p>Water, wood, metal, stone, salt, cotton--these are some of the everyday talismans that Maureen Hynes encounters on her journey through Harm's Way. A soldier's gold fountain pen, like the war itself, lies buried for decades; the corrugated metal and glass shattered across the Australian outback teach her a new way to look at landscape; the silk of an old parachute recalls her first lesson in longing, and even the ribbed cotton of new undershirts sparks a poignant grief. </p>
<p>In this, her remarkably deft second collection of poems, Hynes takes us travelling on a road signposted with the dangers and fears we encounter in the larger world and which intersects with our most private moments and memories. But Harm's Way is also a shared journey fueled by a meticulous search for hope, compassion and courage, for "the molecular level of kindness." The intensity of our personal engagement with the world and with others, suggests Hynes, both heightens the journey's menace and redeems its pain.</p>

Harm's Way

Brick Books

Covering and uncovering, exposure and enclosure: these are themes that permeate Maureen Hyness new work. The collection is different in tone from Hyness previous collections: a more hopeful and open work, delighting in the joys of mid-life love. Uncovered continues and deepens some previous themes, such as friendship, family and travel; taking stock of the dire developments in the world around us, particularly environmental ones; and coping with the human project of mortality. Hynes is asking what we can create to heal and improve and revivify our world. Hynes's poems retain a strong personal voice that integrates experience, emotion and observation, deeply rooted in daily life. In the way that all good poetry takes the time to reveal or uncover layers of reality often overlooked, Hyness fine, thoughtful and deeply textured poems surprise and satisfy.

Marrow, Willow

Pedlar Pr

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