Bianca Bowers
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Foreword
On 30 May, 2016, at 1.52 am, I woke from a dream and scribbled...
Seventy-three lines later I had penned (or rather channeled) a cryptic poem that seemed to contain an urgent message. At that stage, I had no idea what it meant, but my intuition told me that all would be revealed if I paid attention to the signs.
In the days that followed, lines from the poem started to materialize and more cryptic poems (or spirit messages as I now call...
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Eight year old Rosalinde lives in an idyllic version of Africa, vervet monkeys in her garden, the lighthouse that illuminates her bedroom window at night, and Mohini, her mystical Hindu maid who is more maternal than her own mother, until a moment in 1982, when she collides with apartheid and her entire belief system is thrown into chaos.
Mainly set on Durban's breathtaking North Coast, over a period of seventeen years, the story moves between atmospheric...
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Poetry frequently warrants an element of autobiography. Broadly, it conveys a truth not produced in fiction. You may find yourself, when reading some of these pieces, with an urge to reach out to the poet, such is their evocatively traumatic content. Yet it is the heartbreak and despair of writer's block that is at the core of much of this verse.
There is plenty of tragedy throughout the poems and a sense of existential distress. Yet, moments of...
4) Passage
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In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers deconstructs and redefines her identity beyond the confines of domesticity while exploring her creative voice and searching for an unattainable sense of belonging as an Australian immigrant.
I watch the moon dwarf my bedroom window
and shelter inside a question mark
With a mix of poems that are both surreal and grounded in reality, Bowers shifts between the conscious and subconscious, reality and dreams,...
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In her third book of poetry, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love and challenges the convention of monogamy.
I think of Anthony and Cleopatra...epic, fated, tragic lovers that drank from love's cup but once. Only, I am no Cleopatra. I am Juliette, with her teenage desire; ambivalent about poison and war.
Ruminating the one-love-fits-all theory, and toying with the concept of polyamory, the poetic voice travels from a starting point...
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"We pick flowers, knowing they will die.
We press flowers, hoping they will survive."
Reading a poem is not so different to picking a flower. Like flowers, there are some poems we want to preserve, remember, and cherish. Poems we press between the pages of a book.
This book contains eighty-six of my most popular poems from my first three books: Death and Life (2014), Passage (2015), and Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage (2016).