Sunday Morning, Here by Jill McKeowen – (Ebook only)

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Sunday Morning, Here is Jill McKeowen’s first collection of poetry, articulating an acceptance of impermanence and loss, and consequent arrival at a sense of identity and place.  Moving from teenage years beside the “lapis-lazuli ocean” of the Central Coast of NSW to a last home in a post-industrial suburb of Newcastle, the poems record the details of very Australian lives, troublingly settled on “deeply storied ground” but blessed by childhood memories of a family with love behind its purpose (always).  Beside an awareness of war and damage elsewhere, they celebrate the transfiguring possibilities of the everyday: the layers of the past in an old Swan teapot; the bits and pieces left in a dead father’s shed; the “pilgrimage of woodsmoke to the stars”.

ENDORSEMENTS:

Sunday Morning, Here is a deeply moving, beautifully crafted and perfected collection of poems. I first read it in one sitting, and was swept away by its clarity and directness, its vivid descriptions and generous celebrations of people and places.  This is meticulous, careful writing, which is also effortlessly welcoming. Keenly intelligent, but also tender and intimate, Jill McKeowen’s posthumously published book is a gift from a poet with both a deep love and acceptance for life with all its chaos and beauty, and a desire to record that, clear-eyed, in words that would keep it real and unforgotten.

Jean Kent

This is one of the best Pocket books I’ve read! Accomplished, poignant, and brilliant at establishing a sense of place.  This book will give everyone who reads it a sense of solace and joy.

Brian Purcell