Whetstone by Eira Murphy

Immersed in an internal geography where the self seems always to teeter on the brink of becoming other, Whetstone chronicles the disorienting and dislocating aftershocks of grief. The pamphlet navigates landscapes populated by mirrors, birds, psalters, and trees where startling images of transformation draw our attention to the blurrings of loss. These poems allow us to consider what it might mean to be forced ‘into the first person’.