You Will Not Know In Advance What You'll Feel

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*Shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award*

This threshold, the edge of things now, this single instant, unfolding through itself time, syntax, memory, want.You Will Not Know In Advance What Youll Feelhas this radically spare structure of thought, within which, against which, Pont is characterful, quick, sensuous, ecstatic. Like Woolfs novel The Waves, this work creates the silence out of which it speaks. It washes the words in it. Reading these poems, you meet time face to blind face. Lisa Gorton

Ponts poetry is hard to understand, is obscure like Sylvia Plath. To compare a woman writer with Sylvia Plath runs the risk of being tokenistic, like something we do to all women writers by virtue of them being women. But I mean it in the highest compliment. Gabrielle Everall, TEXT journal

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'Pont's poetry is hard to understand, is obscure like Sylvia Plath. To compare a woman writer with Sylvia Plath runs the risk of being tokenistic, like something we do to all women writers by virtue of them being women. But I mean it in the highest compliment.'-- Gabrielle Everall, TEXT Journal.

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Antonia Pont is a poet, essayist, practitioner and theorist. She teaches at Deakin University, in Writing & Literature and supervises projects of doctoral candidates across the Creative Arts. She is founder of Vijna Yoga Australia (est. 2009)a community of practitioners, artists and thinkers investigating the intersections of sense, expression, stability and creative capacity in relation to shared futures.