Breath & other poems

Thérèse Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone on Tasmania''s beautiful north-west coast. Her passion for the natural world, its shape, substance and light - ''a heaviness of bent colour / an arcing over of gold'' (''Acacia Avenues'') - and her exploration of the human condition - ''our love and longing / is rolled tight, like a ball'' (''Thoughts on a Mother''s Birthday'') - offer moments in time that she hopes resonate for her readers.