Her Whereabouts

Where does personal grief end and ecological grief begin? How does the line between these spheres hold, and how do the parallels between them manifest? How do we articulate and honour pain and unthinkable loss - for ourselves and for our world? And how might we learn to navigate the storms that are present- ing themselves? At a time of crisis for the deteriorating body of Earth and for the stroke-stricken body of her own mother - two desperately precious, sustaining organisms - Joanna Guthrie uses her second collection to bear witness to the present and glance at the near future, in a body of poems which enact unflinching and devout noticing, while waiting 'to see what emerged from the firing.'