**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
