Vishvarȗpa

by Michelle Cahill

Short listed for the Victorian Premier's Award 2012.
reviewed in Australian Book Review.

"Can there be any Australian poet who has entered with such lyrical depth into the intermingling voice of Australia and INdia? Michelle Cahill's poems are astonishingly rich and new, their feet so deeply planted in timeless myth" Chris Wallace-Crabbe.

"Michelle Cahill's verse is controlled with a deep vein of feeling running beneath the measured lines...her poetry rises on a 'burning ladder of language'. Keki N Daruwalla.

Genres: Poetry

94 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Michelle Cahill is of Indian heritage and lives in Sydney. Her short stories Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo, 2016) won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing and was on several shortlists. Her novel Daisy and Woolf (Hachette, 2022) was longlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Voss Literary Prize. She is a Hedberg Writer in Residence at the University of Tasmania.

Reviews

[Kiran Bhat · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Cahill’s rendition of Vishvarupa not only looks out into the world, but ambits, and from that sojourn creates something unlimited, international, and restless."

- Please read my review on Vishvarupa for the Hong Kong Review at the link below:

https://www.hongkongreview.co/post/st...

[Bridget Cameron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Michelle Cahill's clear voice moves through the din of Indian backstreets, the pause of nature's repose, to the highs and lows of human emotion, where intergenerational and inter-racial views morph into a symphony of oneness.