News of the Insect World uses closely observed and poignant details from the lives of insects to explore ideas about love, mortality, and transformation.
“I’ve been a caterpillar for so long now…” every poem here is a tiny part of life’s wry pilgrimage. Read them - tender, funny, surprising.” - Kate Grenville
“News of the Insect World uses closely observed and poignant details from the lives of insects to explore ideas about love, mortality, and transformation. In these poems a million purple-spotted butterflies try to avoid an elevated motorway in Taiwan, bogong moths block the ducts of Parliament House, a dragonfly considers its death. We are asked how fugues work, and why gods are invisible.” - Merle Goldsmith
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Reviews
Emily Bitto Reviews Susan Hampton in TEXT Journal
Publishing Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780734041050