Conversations I've Never Had

Caitlin Maling’s first collection is at heart a poetry of place. Cervantes, Donnelly River, Yallingup, Fremantle, Leonora, and beyond are richly evoked in poems ranging stylistically from accomplished mature lyrics and the confessional to narratives of raw power and feeling. Restlessly questioning and frequently allusive, slipping between promise and possibility, Maling’s poems are invested in the actuality of the world, exploring the landscapes of memory and the brief moment of now.

Caitlin Maling is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared throughout Australia, including in the Australian, Australian Poetry, Best Australian Poems, Blue Dog, and Westerly, as well as in the Threepenny Review in the United States.