Kate Lilley, Tilt Mommy Must Be a Fountain

Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books

with poetry itself

Cities makes playful and lyrical incursions into myth to explore the nature of grief for a mother while becoming a mother

not only does the collection as a whole generate its own mythic

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Kate Lilley, Tilt Mommy Must Be a FountainWinner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2019) Tilt follows the skewed itinerary of attachment and loss, possession and dispossession; the movement of people and things, from Greta Garbos Manhattan exile to the Green Bans of 1970s Sydney to the precarious passages of deracinated subjects. In its detours through the copia of material history, lived experience and the archive of poetic forms, the book itself becomes a teeming repository of the