'SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN'
ISBN 978 1 764120 067
| 124 pgs | Apr 2026 | $20.00 (within Australia)
SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN
is steeped in the littoral, the pull and push of tides in the Bega Valley. ‘The wave is every living thing/gone before the Moon/can intervene.’ Even
the Monaro plains are an ‘ocean [of] nothing but land’. Southorn’s keen eye and sharp descriptive flair let the poems wash in the numinous without
neglecting to acknowledge the ‘library of toppled shelves’ the settler gaze must sort through. For ‘I am water and my blood salt’.
LIAM FERNEY
These poems diversify our understandings, breaking the linearity of our human stories in favour of an ecology of thought as fluid as the world entwining it.
The poems follow yearning, conflict, sadness, love, but always through immersion. Ed Southorn finds his moment, the poems tell us, ‘in a confluence of
synchronicities’. Meeting these moments, we leave with a larger world inside us.
KRISTEN LANG