PETE HAY: "Earlier I said that this collection's a sort of interior biography of Fairweather. I hope in saying so I haven't left you with the impression that this is a work of history cut up into stanzas of poetry, because nothing could be further from the truth. There is a sublime poetic imagination rooting through these pages. All the poetic liberties are taken - as they should be - not to muddy an extraordinary man's history, but to probe as an incoming tide the dark holes in his life ... those untouched by any catalogue of facts ... those where the crabs and sea corals live."

Pete Hay: Tasmanian Poetry Festival, October 2012