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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Sea Chest
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'The Sea Chest is a visceral, moving, and emotionally layered account of life in the aftermath of loss. In 2017, Kerry Greer’s husband Gabriel ended his life with horrific violence, dying on the kitchen floor of his parents’ home.

'Haunting in its honesty, and underpinned by a connection to the spirituality of the natural world, The Sea Chest traces the impact of Gabriel’s death over years and continents. The collection provides a counter-narrative to ideas of grief portrayed in sympathy cards or Hollywood movies. There is no redemptive narrative arc, no going “back to normal.” But there is the old love—the indissoluble thread that is now called grief.

'Imagistic and probing, The Sea Chest speaks directly into the void. In the stillness, in the grey: a ripple, an answer from the ether, asking the reader to listen, to not turn away. The Sea Chest becomes a holding space for grief—for the things which cannot be said out loud, but which need to be voiced. This is poetry as invocation, poetry as love enacted, poetry as gateway to the liminal and the sacred.'(Publication summary)

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    • Kambah, Tuggeranong area, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Recent Work Press , 2023 .
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      Extent: 143p.
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      •  Published November 2023

      ISBN: 9780645651331

Works about this Work

After Gabriel : Navigating Grief and Loss 2023 single work
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 December 2023; (p. 19)
After Gabriel : Navigating Grief and Loss 2023 single work
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 December 2023; (p. 19)
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