coming to nothing

This new collection simultaneously explores and invokes a constellation of poetic voices that all, ultimately, resolve into the nothing which gives them birth. Presence gives way to absence and absence hints at something beyond a restoration of presence, something her poems take seriously and ground through disruption, ‘the vowels of silence’, and the truth of life, lived, grieved and continued. More here.

Door of Air - Cordite Poetry Review

An online chapbook of new poems exploring what human life entails; depth, loss and transformation. https://bit.ly/yasbincek

White Camel

This third book is a radical departure in Morgan Yasbincek's poetry. A concentrated dialogue with the world around her, displayed in her first two books, gives way to poems that suggest aftermath and new beginning. Their contemplations occur in the spaces left after loss, where love and grief are 'kinds of home without settlement'. They summon up the pluck and rapture of childhood, and the wisdom of religions: Buddhist, Hindu, Judeo-Christian, and a resilient and matriarchial animism. The movement of voice here seems to rely on vacuum and echo for its definitions. The poems refract a spectrum of meanings, from inward directness, to inventive allegory. In the key poem 'gimel', the undulating gait of the white camel 'makes this direction into a future'. Yasbincek's own rhythms, as ever, are assured and light-syllabled. White Camel was shortlisted for the 2010 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Firelick.

A collection of verse by award-winning writer Morgan Yasbincek, the poems are connected by the theme of fire: the element which has no state of rest. Yasbincek captures the power of desire and language, impressions of lives lived, creatures coming into existence and disappearing, intimacies between words and images.

Liv

This book is a triumph of imagination. It explores the reverberations, felt and expressed through succeeding generations of the 'Unspeakable' and the 'Unthinkable' traumatic events of the War and the Holocaust. It is about finding a way to live with one's own personal history and family history, and with one's family. A work of great originality it is written in a language and style that is at once poetic, profound and full of drama.

Night Reversing

Moving from deceptively simple lyrics, through substantial poems of interiority, experience and remembering, this book opens out into the powerful narrative sequence Canada Poems. Concerned with personal and shared experience, the light and dark at play in the everyday, it is a remarkable and individual first collection