I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving:
when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea.
A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences – love letters, elegies, narratives and odes – it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others’ lives and voices, remaking form and craft. Felicity Plunkett’s remarkable poems balance wrack and loss with vitality, resilience and beauty.
‘The language is almost bursting out of its skin.’ The Canberra Times
‘Poetry that makes you slow down and linger.’ The Big Issue
‘Felicity Plunkett’s poetry deserves our full attention.’ Sydney Review of Books
‘a varied collection of highly accomplished poems...deftly crafted.’ Australian Book Review
‘A complex, beautiful, condensed and delicate book.’ Compulsive Reader