Svetlana Sterlin, If Movement Was a Language of finding that not all

of finding that not all of one’s identities have been torn out at the roots

What critics said about Inexorable Weather (2001)

In loosely following the journey of Jason and the Argonauts

It is a geography and geographical construct that is as complex and slippery as the many distances traversed in the poems of places by Carlomar

Her third volume of poetry Eien ni Konai Basu(The Bus that Never Comes)

Svetlana Sterlin, If Movement Was a Language of finding that not allWinner of the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award Commended in the 2024 Anne Elder Award 'A highly individual work that depicts the life world of the poet as swimming coach, whose intimate experiences of water, buoyancy, speed, fluidity and the locales of swimming pools become symbols of growing up between far flung countries, societies and languages. Acting as a set of theme and variations, the poems achieve a strong sense of character and of