Cicada Chimes

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Abstract

Cicada Chimes is set over a twenty-four-hour period covering several years in time lapse; it moves from a funeral service in Rookwood, to a honeymoon in Paris, to the morning markets in Serres, Greece, and a church service in Surry Hills. The twenty-four-hour time structure is Helen Koukoutsis’ way of exploring the effects of her father’s death and mother’s grief on her Australian-Greek Orthodox identity. Written with understated humour, these poems smile at the tensions between marriage and motherhood, memory and forgetfulness, and life and death.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationPort Adelaide, S.A.
PublisherGinninderra Press
Size71 pages
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Australian poetry

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