Honey from the Ground
A Memoir
$21.66
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
There is no way to ‘come to terms’ with parental grief: it is like being killed while still standing, being born in mid-life and having to learn to exist again, becoming a hybrid creature, partly buried.
For Soren Tae Smith, the dead have always been mentors. Their deeds have ended but their influence continues. But what does it mean when your child, who had just begun to talk with you about Kafka and Camus, is suddenly closer to them than to you? What does it mean to be able to write…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522881813 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522881815 |
| Author: | Soren Tae Smith |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 198mm x 130mm |
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About The Author
Soren Tae Smith
Soren Tae Smith is a writer and a teacher in the Creative Writing program at the University of Melbourne. She has written for Southerly, TEXT, Antipodes, Antithesis and Written Off, and her creative non-fiction has been longlisted by The Lifted Brow. Honey from the Ground won the Barrow Street Press prize for an unpublished non-fiction manuscript in 2023, judged by Mary Cappello.
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