Late Murrumbidgee Poems poetry –Alex Selenitsch

–Alex Selenitsch

They would land on squares that specified Adventure

a word I love for the ö with its umlaut

between the intimate and the strange (and estranged)

Late Murrumbidgee Poems poetry –Alex SelenitschRead Melissa Lucashenko's introduction to Late Murrumbidgee Poems. ISBN: 9780648511649 It is twenty years since Night Song and Other Poems was published. That was a poetic recording of my journey from childhood, through adolescence, marriage and a return to Australia from twelve years in Aotearoa New Zealand. The foci in that book identity, family, childhood were deliberately occluded. My sexuality, in the 1980s of its writing, was presented as though