Coming to Nothing
Within this robust and delicate collection, Morgan Yasbincek simultaneously explores and invokes a constellation of poetic voices that all, ultimately, resolve into the nothing which gives them birth.
Presence gives way to absence and absence hints at something beyond a restoration of presence, something her poems take seriously and ground through disruption, ‘the vowels of silence’, and the truth of life, lived, grieved and continued.
Ever becoming, and eternally un-becoming, this intimate and sensual collection brings us close to tongues which become plants, daughters who unfold through Ancient Hindu plays and verdant landscapes which are forever speaking of the stillness beyond all things. All is animate, all have voices here, even in the silence and darkness of separation and loss. With Sappho as compañera and the Fragment pointing to what always is, Morgan’s crafting of words awakens a world we have always known and always failed to name.
Morgan Yasbincek has published three collections of poetry and one novel. Her first collection, Night Reversing won the Anne elder and Mary Gilmore awards, Firelick was short-listed for the Victorian premier’s C.J. Dennis award and White Camel, her most recent collection was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award. Her novel liv was short-listed for the ASAL gold medal award and was highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s awards. Morgan has taught creative writing at Murdoch University, ECU, UEA in England and at various community workshops in Australia and overseas. She has also mentored several emerging WA writers’ manuscripts. She currently lives in the Perth hills, works in the field of library services and continues to develop her writing practice.
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