'Within this robust and delicate collection, Morgan Yasbincek simultaneously explores and invokes a constellation of poetic voices that all, ultimately, resolve into the nothing which gives them birth. Presence gives way to absence and absence hints at something beyond a restoration of presence, something her poems take seriously and ground through disruption, 'the vowels of silence', and the truth of life, lived, grieved and continued.
'Ever becoming, and eternally un-becoming, this intimate and sensual collection brings us close to tongues which become plants, daughters who unfold through Ancient Hindu plays and verdant landscapes which are forever speaking of the stillness beyond all things. All is animate, all have voices here, even in the silence and darkness of separation and loss. With Sappho as compañera and the Fragment pointing to what always is, Morgan's crafting of words awakens a world we have always known and always failed to name.' (Publication summary)
'As Audrey Lorde writes, ‘Poetry is not a Luxury’, for Morgan Yasbincek poetry is a tool for survival of living agency and a means of deep enquiry into the foundational. The poetry collection, Coming to Nothing by Morgan Yasbincek was published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2023. The title of the collection evokes a sense of arrival. It is not becoming nothing it is coming to nothing; it is the state of being humbled before the essential stripped back to what is of intrinsic value. Time and time again whether it be in the face of political engagement in a poem like ‘That Day’, death or tragedy Yasbincek has us standing humbled with her before what is vital. Coming to nothing is coming to no thing, where there is no thing there is bare faced wonder, surrender and immersion in the light of the unknowable.' (Introduction)
'It’s such my great privilege to be with you here to launch two such accomplished and substantial poetry collections by two such distinguished WA poets, Marcella Polain and Morgan Yasbincek, in Fremantle/ Walyalup. As I begin, I want to echo our wonderful MC Jan Teagle Kapetas. The culture, history, and connections to the land on which we’re standing go back tens of thousands of years. I’d like to acknowledge that it’s the land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation we’re gathered on, and to pay my respects tonight to elders past, present, and emerging.' (Introduction)
'It’s such my great privilege to be with you here to launch two such accomplished and substantial poetry collections by two such distinguished WA poets, Marcella Polain and Morgan Yasbincek, in Fremantle/ Walyalup. As I begin, I want to echo our wonderful MC Jan Teagle Kapetas. The culture, history, and connections to the land on which we’re standing go back tens of thousands of years. I’d like to acknowledge that it’s the land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation we’re gathered on, and to pay my respects tonight to elders past, present, and emerging.' (Introduction)
'As Audrey Lorde writes, ‘Poetry is not a Luxury’, for Morgan Yasbincek poetry is a tool for survival of living agency and a means of deep enquiry into the foundational. The poetry collection, Coming to Nothing by Morgan Yasbincek was published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2023. The title of the collection evokes a sense of arrival. It is not becoming nothing it is coming to nothing; it is the state of being humbled before the essential stripped back to what is of intrinsic value. Time and time again whether it be in the face of political engagement in a poem like ‘That Day’, death or tragedy Yasbincek has us standing humbled with her before what is vital. Coming to nothing is coming to no thing, where there is no thing there is bare faced wonder, surrender and immersion in the light of the unknowable.' (Introduction)
