'married to this ground' | ISBN 978 1 877010 460 | 90 pgs | Jun 2014 | $20 (within Australia)
In 'married to this ground', her third poetry collection, Nicola Bowery's core interest is to evoke a geography of marriage.
She writes from a wide plateau landscape but her focus is the texture and grain of daily life, the inherent drama (and comedy) in
relationship, the interplay of psychic and physical terrain.
Bowery's language in these poems seems the perfect vehicle for the task she sets herself: to find poetry in immediate experience
and in the 'ordinary'. Intimate and spacious, the poems offer a distinctive sense of having been long distilled in the ground
they arise from. At the same time there's a compelling cumulative power in the work, a vigour and accessibility that will draw
the reader into Bowery's world.
Nicola Bowery's poems are a glorious balancing act: stillness and silence coupled with the strong, sinewy, subversive and
ecstatic. The poet places home with its daily routines, quietness and moments of reverence firmly at the centre, as the
earth/heart that encompasses a huge and astonishing universe.
Adrienne Eberhard