Seeing Things

<p>"John Malone’s lively and quirky imagination produces widely appealing poetry. The poems in <em>Seeing Things</em> are keenly observed accessible and often humorous or whimsical. How fortunate we are that one of South Australia’s most published children’s poets is sharing his other poetry here in <em>Seeing Things</em>. Malone’s subject matter is diverse from bovine weather forecasting in the poem ‘Cows in a Paddock’: ‘… you can tell what the weather / Will be like by studying cows in a paddock’; to recalling surgery hospital and delirium in ‘The Pink Hippo’: ‘You wonder what will come next. You go to the toilet. You piss piranhas.’  Indeed Malone has us <em>Seeing Things</em> anew in this rich poetic offering." - Jude Aquilina</p>