Description: Lynette Arden is a writer and artist. Her poetry has been published in journals and collections in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Canada, India and Japan. One of the three prize winners for Friendly Street Poets New Poets statewide competition her book of poetry, A Pause in the Conversation, was published in Friendly Street New…
Lynette Arden
Writer and Artist
These poems travel narrow roads deep north, and they take slow boats east; they sail the Nile south, and they safari in Africa; they turn paintings inside out and find our faces there; they long for love long after love let go; they poke fingers in the eyes of the pompous, and they reincarnate Vincent in the suburbs—and they do all this with a quiet mastery of forms borrowed from all quarters of the world, all the while standing in a kitchen cooking quinces, sitting at an office desk after hours turning ema