Swimming In Words

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(37 64 143 1)>WINNER EYELANDS BOOK AWARDS PRIZE 2025</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(37 64 143 1)>FINALIST WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS 2025 </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(37 64 143 1)>Luke Icarus Simon's graceful and groundbreaking work was first published in the 1980s and he has since become one of the quiet achievers of Australian literature. This collection explores the human condition how we relate to family and partners and the shaping of our identity through the shifting currents of love friendship and illness. Simon's aim is to make sense of why we're all here masterfully navigating and negotiating the realities of our existential aloneness. </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(37 64 143 1)>Luke Icarus Simon's experience as an actor and playwright informs each poem propelling the reader into a sensual visceral and passionate world. With settings as diverse as the Great Ocean Road Santiago Athens and the Greek Islands Simon draws readers into the intimacies of his life. </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>SWIMMING IN WORDS </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(37 64 143 1)>SWIMMING IN WORDS brings together seventy of Simon's poems some previously published many revised for this collection</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(37 64 143 1)> as well as completely new works such as the 4000+-word eponymous prose poem. </strong></p>