Messages from the Embers: From Devastation to Hope, Australian Bushfire Anthology

by Julia Kaylock (Editor), Denise O'Hagan (Editor)

Overview

Messages from the Embers brings together 118 poetic voices and visions into 138 poems that detail and articulate the devastating 2019-2020 bushfire crisis that devastated around 20,000 hectares of land around Australia, destroying thousands of homes and buildings. Adding to the human death toll, significant losses of life to domesticated animals and native fauna resulted from the fires. In this anthology, some writers address the broad political and social scope of the catastrophe, others take a microscope to the localised and domestic effects during a time when the fragility of every structure and living creature was magnified. Beginning with the origins of fire, to the burning to the ashen aftermath, this anthology is courageous in its expression and acknowledgement of the multilayered loss felt by so many. Within several of these poems is a resilient undercurrent of hopefulness, and a will to emerge from damage and drive a more perceptive way forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648002062
Publisher:	Wordsmart Enterprises
Publication date:	10/09/2020
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Julia Kaylock lives in Victoria. With a background in adult education, career coaching and educational publishing, Julia has been published widely in newspapers, journals, magazines, and online. Her poems, short stories and microfiction pieces have appeared on websites and in several publications including The Blue Nib (Issue 41, 2020). Julia edited the anthology Gatherings by the Lighthouse (Picklepoetry, 2019).

Denise O'Hagan was born in Rome and lives in Sydney. With a background in commercial book publishing in the UK and Australia, Denise works as an editor with independent authors, and is Poetry Editor for Australia/New Zealand for Irish literary journal The Blue Nib. Her poetry is published widely and has received numerous awards.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

BACKDROP

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: PRELUDE (28 poems)

PART TWO: DEVASTATION (43 poems)

PART THREE: AFTERMATH (39 poems)

PART FOUR: HOPE (28 poems)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BIOGRAPHIES

THE HOUSE AT ROSEDALE

ABOUT BLAZEAID

AFTERWORD