The Infant Vine by Isabella G. Mead - ISBN: 9781760802868
Paperback
Ordinary moments become strange and significant in times of disaster.

The Infant Vine

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  • Paperback

    90 pages

  • Release Date

    8 July 2024

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Summary

Lyrical and narrative-driven, with playful and fantastical elements woven throughout, the poems in The Infant Vine reflect on how ordinary moments become charged with significance and strangeness when disaster strikes. Such moments make imaginary worlds possible: sleep deprivation transfigures a new mother into a leafy sea dragon; a novel virus gives women the power to reproduce via parthenogenesis like the eponymous bonnethead shark. Themes of transformation, metamorphosis and preservation -…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760802868
ISBN-10:1760802867
Author:Isabella G. Mead
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWA Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:90
Release Date:8 July 2024
Dimensions:208mm x 140mm
About The Author

Isabella G. Mead

Isabella G. Mead was born in Hobart in 1989 and grew up in Melbourne. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Monash University and holds a BA from the University of Melbourne and an MA (Digital Humanities) from King’s College London. Her work has been published widely, including in Meanjin, Island, Westerly and Cordite Poetry Review. In 2023, she was shortlisted twice for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. She lives, works and raises her young family on unceded Wurundjeri land. The Infant Vine (UWA Publishing, July 2024) is her debut poetry collection.

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