News of the Insect World

Titles 2007 - 2020
Written By Gareth Jenkins

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

Gareth Jenkins https://apothecaryarchive.com
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