'Out of the Blocks is the debut full-length poetry collection from Newcastle based poet Ellen Shelley. Curiosity, memory and deep feeling can be found in these poems that play with the dark edges of the lyrical I and explore the complexity in particular of human relationships, and the desire at times, to be outside of them.'(Publication summary)
'I was excited when I first ran across Ellen Shelley’s early poems. Here was a person who approached words and the world with a different slant. Like so many of us, I crave the new in poetry. If she kept on writing I thought this would be a major new voice in Australian poetry.' (Introduction)
'I was excited when I first ran across Ellen Shelley’s early poems. Here was a person who approached words and the world with a different slant. Like so many of us, I crave the new in poetry. If she kept on writing I thought this would be a major new voice in Australian poetry.' (Introduction)
