Cirrus@Austlit

'I write down these words and put them together

'Hoping it’ll do the same to your broken pieces

'Each page holds great meaning

'Your untold words

'Stories too hard to say aloud

'Secrets I forever keep'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Palis Delon, spacegirl virtuoso in amidst

'science & art the alien courtship travelling

'against the cosmos what we once called

'star-crossed lovers —upon a time in deep

'space…’ nine, now but the faint image.

'A blank canvas only emancipates our colours,

'giving life to what was once dead, a

'warrant toward painting us the unique

'portraits we are.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'I am Naikbahkt from Badakhshan, Afghanistan, the girl who went through all her difficulties by herself. The girl who misses her country, culture, friends, family, everything she loves all the time and cannot say.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The book you are holding is the second

'of many

'Many more.

'It is also my way

'of ensuring the letters inside

'do not remain

'unsent.

'Please read with love

'and fire.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The poems in Birett’s debut collection will tell you the heat of the sun, about the distance between both stars and people; in them you’ll hear the voice of a moon longing for love. And threaded through all the poems is the interplay of love and power, the craving for both, and the sense that behind both is a danger poised and waiting. Birett’s writing is willing to investigate the light and dark; in doing so it allows the reader to glimpse a mind as it plays with both hope and fear.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.