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Nicole Rain Sellers

Nicole Rain Sellers was born on Leni Lenape land and lives on Awabakal country. Her poems have been awarded in Australian prizes and anthologised internationally. Nicole coauthored Fossilised Lightning (Girls on Key Poetry, 2021) and Cycles in Light (Ginninderra Press, 2023). She holds a Master of Philosophy in contemporary Australian ecopoetry.

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Nicole Rain Sellers Reviews Ashley Haywood and Brett Cross

Clustering is a technique for mind-mapping the parts of any whole. Organisms cluster into ecologies, people cluster into communities, and poems cluster into collections. In Polyp and Islands, clusters of cells, beings, and places form and dissolve. Both books explore the flux between separateness and wholeness in nature, each word and line branching into vaster topographies. The poems arrange in organic patterns, then undermine their own classification by splitting, mixing, and rejoining themselves in new arrangements.

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Nicole Rain Sellers Reviews Marjon Mossammaparast and Simon Tedeschi

In And to Ecstasy and Fugitive, Marjon Mossammaparast and Simon Tedeschi testify to psychic realities concurrent with place, realities that overflow Australian and international borders. Both books hinge on altered states of consciousness. Both are arranged in segments self-described as “pastiches” or “fragments” (Tedeschi 20; Mossammaparast 87).

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