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About the author
MARK TREDINNICK is a celebrated poet, essayist, and writing teacher. His bestselling books on the writing craft are used in schools and university writing programs and have inspired a generation of writers. His many honours include the Montreal and Cardiff Poetry Prizes, The Blake, ACU, Ron Pretty, and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, two Premiers' Literature Awards, and the Calibre Essay Prize. The Blue Plateau, his landscape memoir, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize.
About the book
These carols are written to be read and sung, these are poems of musicality and quiet wisdom, poems of delight and sadness, levity and gravity. These are carols for our time, which sing rain and sun and birds and mountains, love and loss. domesticity and wildness, land and language, giving and taking, living and dying. They strike themes we return to each Advent and Christmas: truth-telling, forgiveness, hope, delight, recollection, rebirth. Enjoy them on the silence of the page: share them out loud, sing them in gratitude and anticipation.
"These poems weaponize grace… Mark renders rivers, birds and dogs, the sheoaks, frogs and all the swarming insects and stars with vividness most poets reserve for human love affairs. A deep connection with Country is the wild root of all these poems—so rare in non-indigenous poets, and so important." Judith Ngala Crispin
"One of our great poets of place -- not just of geographic place, but of the spiritual and moral landscapes as well." Judith Beveridge
"His is a bold, big-thinking poetry in which ancient themes (especially the theme of our human relationship with landscape) are recast and rekindled.” Sir Andrew Motion