Handshake
By (Author) Claire Albrecht
Puncher and Wattmann
Puncher and Wattmann
1st April 2022
Australia
Paperback
83
Width 203mm, Height 203mm
A logical continuation from Albrechts debut chapbook pinky swear, handshake is a space of anxious play. It combines conceptual photography with sharp and disarming poetry, investigating personal and public tensions between environment, desire, isolation and fear in the wake of the devastating East Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Intertwining the earth(l)y material with the metaphysical, handshake grasps onto what is real in a grounding exercise against panic