Second Fleet Baby - Softcover

Nadia Rhook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1760991694 ISBN 13: 9781760991692

Publisher: Fremantle Press, 2022

Synopsis

Drawing on the energies of 18th century English convict women, including Rhooks own ancestors, Second Fleet Baby opens raw questions of belonging. In this collection, mother is narrated as a long process of becoming. Through stories of childhood, fertility, and of nurturing new life during a pandemic, Rhook casts off the patriarchal weight of history, pulling origins from the seabed to the surface.

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About the Author

Nadia Rhook is a non-Indigenous poet, historian, educator, and mother, born in Naarm / Melbourne and currently living in Boorloo / Perth. She has a PhD in History from La Trobe University and is passionate about embodied ways of connecting with the past-present. She has designed and delivered public walking tours and heritage exhibitions, and performed poetry in venues across Naarm and Boorloo. Her poetry is placed in various journals and anthologies, including Peril Magazine, Cordite, Mascara Literary Review, Westerly, Portside Review, What We Carry: poetry on childbearing (Recent Work Press), and Best of Australian Poems 2022 (Australian Poetry Journal). Nadia is the author of two poetry collections: boots (UWA Publishing, 2020), and Second Fleet Baby, released by Fremantle Press in 2022.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fremantle Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760991694
• ISBN 13: 9781760991692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104