Description

By Paul Fearne

ISBN: 9781783827695
Published: 2025
Pages: 108
Key Themes: Poetry

Description

Life, like the movement of water, always settles at the lowest point. But what does that mean, exactly? In this book we explore different forms of water – rain, rivers, waterfalls, sea, and return to this motif. Water, like life, always settles at the lowest point. Water can very much be beautiful – but it also can be dangerous, and we must be careful around it. But what is the lowest point for life? It is that point where we hit the bottom, and know that we can clamber back up, and lead a great life. Sometimes that is what it takes.

But the book is more than that. It is written in poetic prose, and explores a whole range of different aspects of existence. It is designed to be evocative, and send the reader on a journey of reflection and amelioration.  There are things we must do in life, and if we can reflect on them at greater length, we are in a good position to enact change.

Life, like the movement of water, always settles at the lowest point.

About the Author

Paul Fearne is a writer living and working in Melbourne, Australia. He has a masters on Beauty, and a PhD on schizophrenia. He has appeared on Radio National, and ABC News 24. He has launched at the Dax Centre. He co-hosted a radio show on 3CR on poetry and mental illness. During the pandemic he was regularly on the Brainwaves show as a guest. He spoke of 19^th century poets he had written books on. Fearne had suffered through schizo-affective disorder for many years.

Fearne has a PhD from La Trobe University, and a masters from the University of Melbourne.