'Rosanna E. Licari’s first multi-award-winning poetry collection, An Absence of Saints, UQP 2010, took both personal and public pasts into reimagined terrains. Her second, Earlier, Ginninderra 2023, builds on this focus of going back to explore, and to amplify existence in its various domains and manifestations. Her research is vast and in depth, including the Nāsadīya Sūkta (The Hymn of Creation, Rig Veda 10:129), a scientific discovery of a hominid named Lucy, and the harsh migration history of colonial Australia with the establishment of the Bonegilla migrant camp.' (Introduction)
