Calibrating Home

CALIBRATING HOME considers how home twists and turns in its meanings, from a place of deep content to a place of loss, from nostalgia in full bloom, to harsh reality. This is done in unexpected ways, ranging from our relationship with spiders, mattresses in the street, who we meet at bus stops, living in aged-care homes and by endorsing taps. Calibrating Home takes us to the kitchen sink, the garden, to distant shorelines and many places between. The language of the poems is idiosyncratic yet completely ordinary, lucid yet lyrical, questioning the expected norm of home and calibrating its deviations.