The Tincture of Salt

“Alicia Bennett’s edgy debut collection offers and intensely contemporary perspective on how women negotiate the various parts of their lives: love and sex, work and family, desire and birth (and death) of relationships. (…)

A theme of isolation and solitude runs through many of the poems in this rawly erotic, darkly sensual, sometimes violent and ultimately uplifting collection, but they are energized by sexuality, the animating and creative power of which can be resisted, but never completely escaped. Together, these poems by a brave new voice in Australian poetry focus n a wide range of female life experience into compelling and impressive stories which demand to be heard.”

Highly recommended!

Donna Lee Brian, author of the Girl’s Guide to Real Estate (2002) and The Girl’s Guide to Work and Life(2004)