NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

Ellen van Neerven

Comfort Food

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**Shortlisted, 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards - Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**

**Shortlisted, 2017 ABDA Book Design Awards - Literary Fiction (designer Josh Durham)**

**Highly Commended, 2016 The Wesley Michel Wright Prize**

I also saw those spirit dogs
and poetry travelled with me
like rivers
I didn’t ever eat alone
‘Goan Fish Curry’

Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this assured collection. Using food as her inspiration, van Neerven offers a cross-cultural vision of the exotic and the familiar. This sensuous volume sets a new benchmark in contemporary Australian poetry.

Author: Ellen Van Neerven

Paperback  Published 30 May 2016  96 pages

‘Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food explores identity, sovereignty and the restless quest for love.’- Readings

... Comfort Food delighted me with its emotional heft, its sustaining interest in community and love, and the sparse balance of its lyricism and language.- Australian Book Review

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