The Hum Hearers
'A haunting exploration of the intricate ties between our genetic legacy and environmental echoes.' – Cassandra Atherton
'The powerfully evocative The Hum Hearers connects imagination, memory and embedded feeling. These are beautifully conceived, salutary and wonderfully transportative poems.' – Paul Hetherington
'Brilliantly observational and meditative, the poems in The Hum Hearers detonate like muffled explosions. Generational trauma is counterbalanced by hidden wells of resilience and subterranean solidarities. The poems, written in sprung prose, offer the counter-memories of women held together by the cycles of life that fall upon them with quiet devastation. The piquant aphorisms and subtle epiphanies in these poems rewrite the banalities of experience in a newly epic register.' – 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award judges
Shey Marque is a poet and former clinical haematology and research scientist from Boorloo. She holds a BAppSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science, PhD in Molecular Pathology, and MA in Writing. Currently she coordinates the Hospital Poets Program (Australia) and serves on the Board of Writing WA. Keeper of the Ritual (UWAP 2019), her debut collection, was shortlisted for the Noel Rowe Poetry Award. The Hum Hearers (UWAP 2025), shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award, is her second collection.
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