Thirsting for Lemonade
- Authors
- Johnson, Heather Taylor
- Publisher
- Interactive Press (Interactive Publications)
- Tags
- cross cultural poetry , australian poetry , migration stories , ali alizadeh , steve watkins , americans in australia , women poets , aiden coleman
- ISBN
- 9781922120366
- Date
- 2013-03-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.45 MB
- Lang
- en
In her third collection of poetry, Heather Taylor Johnson celebrates the liminal spaces between two cultures - the neither here nor there, the neither in nor out. It is indeed a world where 'Home is a relative term'.
Thirsting for Lemonade is an affirmation of the migrant's acceptance of never-quite-belonging, and still it is her attempt to forge new paths in foreign, and remembered, territory, where past is always present.
These poems recall the many things which get us home - photographs, a common cereal, a record album, a fooseball table. This latest collection is a celebration of 'the things that are especially good / because they cannot last.'
Heather Taylor Johnson is the author of two books of poetry: Exit Wounds (2007) and Letters to my Lover from a Small Mountain Town (2012).
She was a poetry editor for Wet Ink magazine from 2005-2012 and is currently the poetry editor for Transnational Literature. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide and tutors in Creative Writing at Flinders University.
She is an ex-pat hailing from all over the US, now ecstatically relocated near the Port in Adelaide. She lives with her partner Dash, their three young children - Guthrow, Sunny and Matilda - and their spunky dog Tom. Her first novel, Pursuing Love and Death, will be published by HarperCollins in 2013.