ThéRèSe Corfiatis – författare

The poems selected in this book – taken from Thérèse Corfiatis’s four published books, and a Pocket Poet – convey striking images of landscape, childhood, travel and place. Some of the poems have a mystical element. Colour, light and sound weave together the threads of human experience. This book resonates with a multitude of richness gathered over the years, and offers the reader insights into fundamental values reflecting our world.

Thérèse Corfiatis seeks out beauty and spirit in simple things: the curl of a wave, the flight of cockatoos ‘yellow-flecked tails flashing / like airborne sunflowers’ (‘Black Cockatoos’). She searches for ancestral homeland and belonging – ‘my dispossession torn away / a birthing wound healed up’ (‘The Bridge at Csíkrákos’) – and presents them to the reader with wonder, honesty and freshness.  

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. 

Two women. Two poets. Two countries. One man. Thérèse Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania; Britta Stenberg lives in Rentjärn, Sweden - two women joined in friendship by Tom Langston, who introduced them to each other long distance, during a trip to Sweden. This collaboration is a tribute to his memory. This evocative collection written over the course of a year, from opposite ends of the earth, holds a fervent hope for readers to discover a moment caught in time.