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PASSAGE
Take a poetic sojourn on the bridge between dream and reality.
In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers shifts between consciousness and sleep, reality and dreams, as she seeks to find passage in a restless landscape.
"My feet were fused with a 7-lane highway.
My spine, dismantled;
a map of bones with no instruction."
Passage is a surreal and real exploration of the transient spaces that have the power to destabilise our relationships, identity, and sense of belonging.
"My ghost beckons me into the misty pines
and I follow,
like Autumn."
In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers shifts between consciousness and sleep, reality and dreams, as she seeks to find passage in a restless landscape.
"My feet were fused with a 7-lane highway.
My spine, dismantled;
a map of bones with no instruction."
Passage is a surreal and real exploration of the transient spaces that have the power to destabilise our relationships, identity, and sense of belonging.
"My ghost beckons me into the misty pines
and I follow,
like Autumn."
82 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2015
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Bianca Bowers
11 books19 followersBianca Bowers is an award-winning fiction author and best-selling poetry author. Now based in Australia, she holds a BA with double majors in English and Film/TV/Media Studies, and has authored eight books through her imprints Paperfields Press and Auteur Books: six poetry collections and 2 novels.
Find her at www.biancabowers.com
Find her at www.biancabowers.com
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March 5, 2021
This book is a collection of poems where the author has try to jot down her personal experience and hardships. The book has been divided into four section - Restless, Friction, Reflection and Passage. Each of them gives a unique insight of author's journey and feelings. She has talked about immigration and loss in sense of familiarity she faced while moving from South Africa to Australia. The line from the poem Caterpillar "As long as I am made of blood and ribs I can build a life with bone and marrow" touched me. Some of the poems which I loved the most are
Immigrant
Caterpillar
In the End
If I Was A Map
Every one of the poems are deeply touching and shows a lot about author's ingeniousity and command over words. I liked that all the poems gave a sense of personal touch and felt like a journey. The author's art of conveying her feelings through the wordplay of poems is to be admired and praised. One of the key point of the poems were that the language used was simple which I prefer as it doesn't break the flow while reading to look for meaning. The cover of the book is beautiful. Highly recommended..
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