Simple Fact

<p>In <em>Simple Fact</em> Bronwen Newcott explores the intricacies of family over generations the daughter-mother-sun / rising on repeat. The collection is a meditation between the seen and the unseen the simple fact and shadow between... fingers insisting that muscular love exists between the two. Newcott's play forward and backwards in time allows mother and father to be specific vocational and archetypal at once. From a juicy orange dripping to the elbow to the chalky scrim of loss that shadows a generation Newcott's poems seek small sweet proof that we are living.</p>