'Ephraims works with the premise that the default gear of our world-on-wheels is that of obfuscation, natural and artificial. He brazenly works to refract and thereby clarify the carnival mirror imbroglio upon whose celestial surface we daily reflect and reside. Through surrealistic and absurdist poems Ephraims seeks to make sense of a post-ironic world. His work sits easily in the company of absurdist anti-poets like James Tate and Tomaž Šalamun, bringing a raucous and ludic intellectual agility to Australian poetry, enlightening the experimental peripheries of Australian poetics with a heavy dose of insight, humour and heart.' (Publication summary)
