Wrestling with Bees

Evocative and playful by turn, Natalie Cooke’s first collection is preoccupied by Australian landscapes, what we look at in them and what we don’t. A diverse range of forms, from haiku to pattern poems, reflects on ‘palimpsest landscapes of overlay, erasure’ and the flora and fauna living there — including us. Finely drawn observations about magpies and mosquitos sit alongside musings on maps and modernist art in this exploration of our changing environment.