'In Bitumen Psalms you follow the Hume Highway from the inland Yass region where Lizz Murphy lives, all the way to Wollongong on the South Coast where she used to live. Lizz often writes about place and belonging. In the long title sequence of micro and haiku-ish poems, she is all too aware of her unbelonging — always just passing through. In these pinch-size poems she attempts to engage more closely.' (Publication summary)
