The Hum Hearers
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Hum Hearers
By (Author) Shey Marque
UWA Publishing
UWA Publishing
1st March 2025
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Physical Properties
Paperback
90
Width 140mm, Height 208mm
300g
Description
The powerfully evocative The Hum Hearers connects imagination, memory and embedded feeling. These are beautifully conceived, salutary and wonderfully transportative poems.
Brilliantly observational and meditative, the poems in The Hum Hearers detonate like muffled explosions. Generational trauma is counterbalanced by hidden wells of resilience and subterranean solidarities. The poems, written in sprung prose, offer the counter-memories of women held together by the cycles of life that fall upon them with quiet devastation. The piquant aphorisms and subtle epiphanies in these poems rewrite the banalities of experience in a newly epic register.
Author Bio
Shey Marque is a poet and former clinical haematology and research scientist from Boorloo. She holds a BAppSc(Hons) in Biomedical Science, PhD in Molecular Pathology, and MA in Writing. Currently she coordinates the Hospital Poets Program (Australia) and serves on the Board of Writing WA. 'Keeper of the Ritual' (UWAP 2019), her debut collection, was shortlisted for the Noel Rowe Poetry Award. 'The Hum Hearers' (UWAP 2025), shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award, is her second collection.
