About this ebook
Each section of this exciting and tumultuous water narrative takes the reader for a ride on different streams of intoxicating, daring and at times playful water worlds.
From ancient Greek creation myths to the Australian beach, Aquamorphia moves symphonically, praising the maternal and generative qualities of fluidity since the Big Bang, or splitting of the Cosmic Egg.
The verse is afloat with metaphors that flesh out the minutiae of the aquatic landscapes that sustain life.
About the author
Shé Mackenzie Hawke is an award-winning poet and trans-disciplinary scholar. She currently works in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.
Her work has appeared in several academic journals, and her poetry has been widely anthologised. In 2007, she co-authored Tender Muse (Picaro Press) with Carolyn van Langenberg. Her novel in verse Depot Girl (Picaro Press) appeared in 2008. In 2009 it was nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Literary Award in the same year.
Her research interests include poetry, Greek mythology, psychoanalysis and crosscurrents between environmental, economic and socio-cultural flows of water. She has recently returned to her hometown Canberra, and lives with her two cats and dog. Her adult daughter, also an author, lives and writes from Italy.
