Fish Song

Description

The poems in Maling's third collection, Fish Song, explore the effects of climate change in the Western Australian coastal sites of Cervantes and Grey. Maling's new work is rich and diverse, exploring physical landscapes as well as historical and socio-cultural aspects of place. In her latest, deeply personal, collection Maling travels the coast of Western Australia writing about what the ocean provides - fish, livelihoods, sand and the ever-present sea breeze. In doing so she questions what poetry might offer by way of solace and reconnection in an age of climate change.

Caitlin Maling has published poetry and non-fiction throughout Australia, the UK and the US, in places such as Best Australian Poems, Prairie Schooner, Australian Poetry Journal, Australian Book Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Westerly, The Australian, Stand and The Threepenny Review, among others. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston and is a previous recipient of the Marten Bequest in Poetry, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize and the John Marsden Poetry Prize.