'About Alone Away' | ISBN 978 1 763653 030 | 94 pgs | December 2024 | $25
With Matt Hetherington's 'About Alone Away', "We are invited to journey into & through vulnerability, suffocating pain, & a hinted-at redemption.
Hetherington's language & imagery ricochets between the quotidian & the surreal & we inhabit the ache, absorb the oscillations of
mood & hope, almost taste his pain 'sweet as an orgy of salt'. There's a sense of exorcism, of a scourging self-interrogation,
of organising the chaos of loss, and of wrestling demons
into submission, but also a playfulness & wry intelligence underpinning renewal & reinvention: retrieving hope, relearning trust,
embracing life, resuscitating love." (Paul Summers)