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<p>The collection pulses with images of stars and stray dogs highways with no horizon and mothers with fading memories. Reid’s background as a performer and playwright shines in this collection of works that are as bold as they are tender begging to be shouted spoken whispered many times over.</p><p>‘Psychedelic. Startling. Alive. This book takes you to places you never imagined you’d go and some places you’ve already been but thought you were alone when you were there. Caroline Reid is a fellow traveller in a chaotic world. She tells a woman’s story but it is the story of us all.’</p><p>—Donna Ward <em>She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster’s Meditations on Life</em>.</p><p>‘Caroline Reid’s writing illuminates the mundane and the ordinary as spectacular and powerful.’ Rosslyn Prosser University of Adelaide</p><p>CAROLINE REID writes across genre and form. A regular spoken word performer and repeat finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam her poetry and prose have also been widely published. Her play <em>Prayer to an Iron God</em> is published by Currency Press.</p><p> </p>