'Slipstream' | poetry | ISBN 978 1 763825 963 | 120 pgs | Sept 2025 | $20 (within Australia)
Kristyn J. Saunders lives in Melbourne, Australia. She holds degrees from Deakin and Harvard Universities and a PhD in English & Comparative Literature, from Columbia University. This is her first book of poetry.
The sequence of poems in Slipstream registers a parent's shifting interiority during a young adult child's hospitalisation. Its interwoven forms look back through histories of mental healthcare, troubling the everyday, embodied, and institutional edges of its immense present. Through its redactive practice and miscellany of salvaged and imagined moments, Slipstream maps a late season of maternal care, creating an open, generative space for readers to inhabit.