It’s only about a month until my new collection of poetry, This Teeming Mess of Glory, comes out with Wipf & Stock (Resource Publications). Although the process from getting it accepted to publication has been remarkably short, this book has more than fifteen years in the making. It comprises several poems from my unpublished collection Imperceptible Arms, which won me the 2013 Young Australian Christian Writer of the Year, but some of the poems from that collection are even older. The first poem in This Teeming Mess, “Soil”, began its life entitled “Boy in grass”, and I wrote it between 15-18 years ago. As I was putting the final touches on This Teeming Mess before submitting it, I reworked “Boy in grass” to make it better fit the new collection, and the result is “Soil”, a reflection on early memories living in my childhood home town of Mount Tamborine in Southern Queensland. I thought I’d share it lwith you all today as a little preview of what to expect from the new book when it arrives soon. Looking forward to sharing more with you about the books in the coming months!
The Consolations of Writing 