Porch Light

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"In the poem 'Nuclear', after stating '...Nothing is ever obvious or contained', Ivy Ireland asks, 'How can I write / a lyric poem about the micro-needle in the gargantuan multiverse?' Yet, in a book replete with angels, devils, evolutionary theory, astro-physics, mythology, magpie song, winter flowers, ghost gums, strangler figs, human love and human fear, this is what she does. Never obvious or contained, Porch Light is its own multi-verse of ideas, speculations and puzzlements. It swings from abstract terminology to idiomatic vigour, from doubt to joy, from mind to body. This is exciting writing, exciting reading."-Brook Emery

Ivy Ireland runs a bookstore cafe in Newcastle with her partner, Murrie and their toddler, Poppy. Ivy was awarded the Australian Young Poet Fellowship in 2007 and she has won the local section of the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for poetry. Ivy's poems have been published in various literary magazines and anthologies such as Overland and Going Down Swinging and she has a poem on permanent display in the Bletchley Park Museum, Milton Keynes, UK. Ivy's first collection of poetry, Incidental Complications, was published by the Poets Union Press in 2007. In her spare time, Ivy teaches Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2012. Ivy also plays the harp and sometimes combines poetry with harp at various festivals and events.