'epicormic' | poetry | ISBN 978 1 764120 036 | 204 pgs | Oct 2025 | $25 (within Australia)
This selection of Nicola Bowery’s poems spanning thirty years and four collections highlights her attentiveness to the natural world and to human relationships. It also includes epicormic, new poems. A feature of the work is her sustained interest in the sequence as a vehicle to inhabit a poetic forcefield: a mermaid’s passage onto land, ‘Mothering words’, ‘A geography of marriage’, an interrogation of memory and childhood. In the new poems the poet, who lives beside tall eucalypt forest, is captivated by its post-fire response. And finds evocative language for the coincidental riddles of ‘covid time’.