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When PS Cottier submitted her poem ‘Silver-eyes and figs’ to the first issue of extempore , we loved it immediately.

PS Cottier’s book The Glass Violin, published by Ginninderra Press is launched in February by extempore’s contributing poetry editor, Geoff Page. If the poems we’ve already seen are anything to go by, this is going to be one of our favourite poetry collections for 2009 (early days, but we know what we like).

From a recent review on the Reiter’s Block blog:

Australian poet P.S. Cottier truly does see the universe in a grain of sand–as well as in a tram ticket, a Caesarian scar, the names of Australian military operations, a shabby bear in the Soviet zoo, a wren visiting a dead friend’s garden, and myriad other small details of modern life that she turns into windows on the human condition, in verses both whimsical and profound.