Blood Universe
About the book
This debut poetry collection from Tasmanian poet, Esther Ottaway, explores pregnancy and motherhood. Blood Universe is sensual, honest and compassionate, inviting women and men, parents and non-parents, to place themselves in the tumultuous experience of a first pregnancy.
Blood Universe includes award-winning poems which featured at Sydney Writers Festival readings in 2006.
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Praise for Blood Universe
"I like these poems because they are rich and full-hearted. Esther Ottaway writes with unsentimental clarity. She is sharp, smart and tender and she has a dexterity with language that mark her as a poet well-worth keeping a keen eye on. I'm happy to read anything she writes." - Judith Beveridge
"Authoritative command of form and tone, arresting and inventive use of language, and estranging and slightly disturbing insights into the condition of pregnancy." - Stephen Edgar
"Delicate and tough, precisely observed and thoughtful." - Brook Emery