Winkle Pickers & Brothel Creepers

Jill Gowers poems take us on journeys - back into her own past; into foreign countries; into the natural world of the bush and her garden which she so obviously loves and into the lives of others. Jill can recount a memory evoke sympathy or capture a particular moment in time with honesty colourful description or deft haiku. Jill also takes us on trains - and it is within her observations of fellow travellers and travelling companions (the man who sat down stood up sat down and Petra who didnt have a window) that I find the quirky humour which makes these poems my favourites in this collection. - Judy Dally