“Filled with irony, rage, humour, and compassion, this poetry collection takes our fairy tales and fables, and all the stories we tell ourselves, and doesn’t simply deconstruct them, but blasts them into tiny shards, razor-sharp and beautiful.”

Su J Sokol, author of the Sunburst-nominated novel, Cycling to Asylum

“Lynne Sargent is a modern day Persephone, plumbing the depths of womanhood. Sargent excavates rage in feminist poetry that draws on the imagery of myth and fairy tale in novel and startling ways. She’s an expert at that last surprising line that turns the whole thing on its head and makes us see the story through a new lens.”

Ursula Pflug, author of Seeds and Other Stories

“These beautiful lines in Lynne Sargent’s new collection, while unmasking myth, create and then lay bare the stories we tell ourselves about family, relationships and about ourselves. Sargent’s topography of longing and resurrection bring us soaring and sighing, returning us to a landing, lightly or with all the force of human longing and pain, in our present world but now with a new-found understanding of the origins and particularities of that longing. Within this refuge of tales, the human is dismantled, exposing the molecular state of what it means to be molded of this world.”

Sharon Lax, author of the short story collection Shattered Fossils