Journal of the First Step

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These poems seek to evoke the often subtle yet ultimately profound shifts in awareness which occur during meditation and in daily life, as the non-dual perspective enables a seeing through, or past, the formulations of experience which a dualistic mind-set presents. And they reflect on both the personal and the societal implications which attend such changes.

in these days of look-alike poetry from so many younger poets, a new poetscollection which has a singular, individual feeling for the world comes as a joltHealds workis spare, precise, elegant and utterly his own. Martin Harrison, ABR, June 1999. [re Body-flame]

Heald has written his way into the front rank of contemporary poets with consistent integrity and intelligence. - Judges Comments, Queensland Premiers Prize, Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection, 2005 [re Focusing Saturn]

This is a remarkable and original booka daring and triumphant project[Heald has written] poems of great clarity and subtlety, classically direct poems - Robert Gray, foreword to The Moving World.