{"id":3651,"date":"2026-04-29T05:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:03:02","slug":"ed-southorns-new-poetry-collection-sea-lake-mountain-walleah-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/ed-southorns-new-poetry-collection-sea-lake-mountain-walleah-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Southorn&#8217;s new collection &#8216;SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Southorn has published a new collection, available from Walleah Press for $20 (includes postage within Australia).<\/p>\n<p>Ed Southorn\u2019s second poetry collection examines memory, landscape, history and myth, weighing the impacts of property development, population pressure and climate change in the Bega Valley on the far south coast of New South Wales. The second half of the collection explores storied spaces and places in Europe, America and the Australian outback.<\/p>\n<p>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcampbellpaintings.com.au\">David Campbell<\/a> provided the cover for the book, while poets Liam Ferney and Kristen Lang contributed blurbs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Sea Lake Mountain<\/em> is steeped in the littoral, the pull and push of tides in the Bega Valley. \u2018The wave is every living thing\/gone before the Moon\/can intervene.\u2019 Even the Monaro plains are an \u2018ocean [of] nothing but land\u2019. Southorn\u2019s keen eye and sharp descriptive flair let the poems wash in the numinous without neglecting to acknowledge the \u2018library of toppled shelves\u2019 the settler gaze must sort through. For \u2018I am water and my blood salt\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">LIAM FERNEY<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">These poems diversify our understandings, breaking the linearity of our human stories in favour of an ecology of thought as fluid as the world entwining it. The poems follow yearning, conflict, sadness, love, but always through immersion. Ed Southorn finds his moment, the poems tell us, \u2018in a confluence of synchronicities\u2019. Meeting these moments, we leave with a larger world inside us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">KRISTEN LANG<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3652\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-opt-id=2142001824  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3652\" src=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:666\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov.jpg\" alt=\"cover 'SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN' by Ed Southorn\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:666\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov-scaled.jpg 666w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:195\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov-scaled.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:768\/h:1181\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:998\/h:1536\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov-scaled.jpg 998w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:1331\/h:2048\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov-scaled.jpg 1331w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:1200\/h:1846\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov-scaled.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/cb:wHFs.7a1\/w:1664\/h:2560\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed_Southorn_SEA_LAKE_MOUNTAIN-cov-scaled.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Ed Southorn&#8217;s poetry collection &#8216;SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Available for $20, posted within Australia, from <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/Ed-Southorn-SEA-LAKE-MOUNTAIN.html\">Walleah Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Southorn has published a new collection, available from Walleah Press for $20 (includes postage within Australia). Ed Southorn\u2019s second poetry collection examines memory, landscape, history and myth, weighing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/ed-southorns-new-poetry-collection-sea-lake-mountain-walleah-press\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ed Southorn&#8217;s new collection &#8216;SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[400,401,2,38,394,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ferney-liam","category-lang-kristen","category-poetry","category-poetry-collections","category-prynne-jh","category-southorn-ed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}