How to Measure the Distance of Things

<p>Funny and heartbreaking Australian Paul Whitby's poetry book <em>How to Measure the Distance of Things</em> resides somewhere between the head and the heart. Follow the narrator as he drifts through rural Victoria and New South Wales house-sitting. See him hug an alpaca walk in an old quarry by moonlight and wake up with a cat on his face. Entwined with plenty of navel-gazing and manic episodes these little poems ask big questions with a natural voice that speaks to you like a trusted confidante. In the tradition of Charles Bukowski but with Walt Whitman's connection with nature Whitby creates a poetic style that wins you over entertains makes you think and keeps you wanting more. </p>