Star Salted Place
Star Salted Place, Elizabeth Trew’s second collection of poems reflects the interplay of female power and the power of nature, which connects and transforms our own cycles of birth, living and death.
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Star Salted Place
The poems in Elizabeth Trew’s second collection, Star Salted Place reflect the interplay of female power and the power of nature, which connects and transforms our own cycles of birth, living and death.
The eucalypts of Ethiopia hold water in spring
and women carry drums of rain
(from Song to Song)Small winds blow everywhere over the land
small winds in flames, homelessrise to their feet, run into a cloud
become restless in flightvoice of thunder over the rock pools
the moon’s tidal rooms
(from Song to Song)
Elizabeth Trew was born and grew up in Cape Town. She left South Africa and returned in 1991 after 27 years in exile in England. A former librarian and teacher in adult education in England and Johannesburg, she has an MA in English Education from Wits. Her poems have appeared in poetry journals in South Africa and abroad. Her debut collection My Mother the Seal (Hands-On Books) was published in 2023. She volunteers at a shelter for girls in Cape Town.
“This collection is sublime, transporting.” Finuala Dowling
“Haunting imagery of people, stories and places, rendered in spare, taut lines that illuminate and distil the essence of each. A nourishing vital collection that gets under the skin.” Eduard Burle
