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Poetry frequently warrants an element of autobiography. Broadly, it conveys a truth not produced in fiction. You may find yourself, when reading some of these pieces, with an urge to reach out to the poet, such is their evocatively traumatic content. Yet the beauty of many of these poems is that they have more than one interpretation – and, as the postmodernists have suggested in the past – reader interpretation is as significant as authorial intent.
There is an adage derived from the phenomenologists suggesting that one must have a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough. And though there is plenty of tragedy and a sense of existential distress throughout this collection, we see Bianca Bowers at her best in Thief in crisis moments, with meditations on time stealing youth, on artistic needs both material and sublime, and on the rejection of social norms.
In her sixth poetry collection, Bianca Bowers bleeds onto the page, creating a work of great beauty.
—Richard Gibney
Print ISBN-13:978-0-6484426-9-1
ePub ISBN-13:978-0-9942404-8-4
Cover Artwork Lisima (Shutterstock ID 795263893)
Cover design and typesetting, Paperfields Press
Copyright Year 2023
Butterfly Voyage is a shamanic journey that unfurls through a poetic conversation between a spirit mother, Leda, and her daughter, Butterfly…
“I am the mother / who always loved you
Feathers for arms / Tattoos for skin
I was the mother / she was the sin”
Shape shifting into various spirit animals — black dragon, crocodile, raven — Leda slowly but surely guides Butterfly away from her well of self-loathing and toward self-love by healing old emotional wounds, rewriting disempowering narratives, and rediscovering the magic of authenticity.
“Those wings that look like ribs / are real
The pain is not mistaken, Butterfly”
Print ISBN-13:9780648442608
ePub ISBN-13:9780648442615
Cover Artwork Anna Ismagilova
Cover design and typesetting, Paperfields Press
Copyright Year 2018
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In her third book of poetry, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love and challenges the convention of monogamy.
“I think of Anthony and Cleopatra…epic, fated, tragic lovers that drank from love’s cup but once. Only, I am no Cleopatra. I am Juliette, with her teenage desire; ambivalent about poison and war.”
Ruminating the one-love-fits-all theory, and toying with the concept of polyamory, the poetic voice travels from a starting point in which forbidden love poses a dilemma worthy of a Shakespearean-tragedy to a more indignant ending in which “our brains are slaveowners and love was never meant to be imprisoned.”
Pb ISBN-13: 9780648442639
EPUB ISBN-13:9780994240460
Hardback ISBN-13: 9780994240446
Cover Artwork Anna Ismagilova
Cover design and typesetting, Bianca Bowers
Copyright Year 2016
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“My feet were fused with a 7-lane highway. My spine, dismantled; a map of bones with no instruction.”
In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers deconstructs and redefines her identity beyond marriage and motherhood while searching for an unattainable sense of belonging as an Australian immigrant.
With a mix of surreal poems and poetry firmly grounded in reality, Bowers shifts effortlessly between consciousness and sleep, reality and dreams, as she seeks to find passage in a restless landscape.
“When I find my voice / it muzzles the lark’s chorus…
My roots shrivel below the heath / but harebells bloom from my fingertips.”
Print ISBN-13: 9780994240415
EPUB ISBN-13:9780994240422
Cover Artwork Anna Ismagilova
Cover design and typesetting, Bianca Bowers
Copyright Year 2015
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“Death is the great disruptor. It thrusts us opposite life’s mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth from which rebirth is possible and we are free to reinvent ourselves anew.”
Death and Life is the first poetry book by Bianca Bowers, and includes poems and essays written between 1987 and 2013. Dedicated to those who struggle in their youth, and autobiographical in nature, she invites you to journey through various psychological, emotional, and spiritual experiences to discover why death is not isolated to physical loss, but extends to figurative deaths that arise from larger themes such as patriarchy, abuse, depression, love, exile, belonging, and identity.
“Change
blows through the branches of our existence
and fortifies the roots on which we stand.”
PRINT ISBN-13:9780994240491
EPUB ISBN-13:9780994240484
COPYRIGHT YEAR 2014
Cover design and typesetting, Bianca Bowers
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“We pick flowers, knowing they will die.
We press flowers, hoping they will survive.”
Reading a poem is not so different to picking a flower. Like flowers, there are some poems we want to press between the pages of a book.
This book contains eighty six of Bianca’s most popular poems from her first three books: Death and Life (2014), Passage (2015), and Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage (2016).
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