Author(s): Pepita

Poetry

This book of poems is a visual and emotionally charged feast for the senses. Shaped by the backdrop of a world in crisis, visual artist and emerging poet, Pepita, hones in on the everyday moments, stitching together a melancholy, honest and deeply moving poetic tapestry. Fresh and unforced, the poems, loosely ordered across three parts, create an inner rhythm that propels the reader into Pepita's emotional world. Often sparse (the opening poem is just four words) Untitled [Notes for Blue] is simplistic, immediate and charged.Pepita's unique contemporary writing style, delivers each poem in a bold, rapid manner - as if the reader is thinking the thoughts, blinking through them like a kind of mirror. While anchored in place (several poems reference the poet's Australian location) they are largely reflective of an interior landscape manifested through exterior signs and symbols: a door, a swimming pool, a body, a bunch of tulips.The evocation of blue creates a unifying schema, often implied rather than overt - "a blemished soul winking on the blink of oblivion." Reviews: "Pepita creates a coherent emotional world, streaked with quiet yearning and melancholy...an affective cumulative skein of blue." Tug Dumbly, Author of 'Son Songs', prize winner of the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. "Through turquoise doors and into the un-seen shadow moments Pepita leads us, winking on the brink of oblivion, our hand on her purloined heart." Ender Baskan, Author of "A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man" and 2021 Winner Judith Wright Poetry Prize