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The Wear of My Face

Lizz Murphy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Spinifex Press

Published:10th Sep '21

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The Wear of My Face is an assemblage of passing lives and landscapes, fractured worlds and realities. There is splintered text and image, memory and dream, newscast and conversation. Women wicker first light, old men make things that glow, poets are standing stones, frontlines merge with tourist lines. Lizz Murphy weaves these elements into the strangeness of suburbia, the intensity of waiting rooms, bush stillness, and hopes for a leap of faith as at times she leaves a poem as fragmented as a hectic day or a bombed street. What may sometimes seem like misdemeanours of the mind, to Lizz they are simply the distractions and disturbances of daily life somewhere. There is a rehomed greyhound, a breezy scientist, ancient malleefowl, beige union reps and people in all their conundrums. You might travel on a seagull’s wing or wing through the aerosphere.

The Wear of My Face is an uncanny and politically powerful collection. It traverses ‘strangelands’ that thrum with colour. Its fragments are suspended in a tender tension, much like the conundrums of the human world it explores. —Sarah St Vincent Welch, writer and image maker

ISBN: 9781925950342

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 80mm

Weight: 140g

112 pages