'Confessional Box' | ISBN 978 1 877010 316 | 90 pgs | Feb 2013 | $20
Australian poet Vanessa Page’s collection, Confessional Box, is equal parts personal and critical,
examining emotional relationships with a terse, engaging style. As the title suggests, there is a strongly self-aware element to
Confessional Box. The poems are relatively open, encompassing a range of points of view and personas, but
these are not wholly simple reflections of human relationships. Rather, Page presents a series of evolving sections,
embellishing on memories and balancing broader criticisms against more personally orientated notions of access and invitation.
(From a review by Siobhan Hodge — Cordite Poetry Review, 13th March 2014)