At the Altar of Touch
Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry
From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss.
This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new voice.
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