Cirrus@Austlit

'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)