{"product_id":"9781760414030","title":"Cicada Chimes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCicada Chimes\u003c\/em\u003e is set over a twenty-four-hour period covering several years in time lapse; it moves from a funeral service in Rookwood  to a honeymoon in Paris  to the morning markets in Serres  Greece  and a church service in Surry Hills. The twenty-four-hour time structure is Helen Koukoutsis’ way of exploring the effects of her father’s death and mother’s grief on her Australian-Greek Orthodox identity. Written with understated humour  these poems smile at the tensions between marriage and motherhood  memory and forgetfulness  and life and death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Poignant  bittersweet memories. A journey from Greece to Australia  to Europe and back into the Ithaca of one’s self. Poems that are lean  stripped to the bones of language with the calm tenacity of Emily Dickinson. Helen Koukoutsis questions tradition  religion  society  academia  her own strengths and frailties as a daughter  sister  wife  mother. And all the while the chimes of the cicadas in Rookwood Cemetery are ringing in her ears  following. Forever.’ – Peter Skrzynecki OAM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In her impressive debut collection  Helen Koukoutsis moves among “homes and tables” – from coastal Greece to suburban Australia  across Europe and over the span of literature – to bring us a new poetry of everyday experience. These stories of love and grief are threaded together with vitality and care. Kasseri  cicadas and “thirsting dianthus” crowd together alongside mothers  lovers and daughters. Koukoutsis writes deftly  in sure measure  with Emily Dickinson at one hand and Virginia Woolf at the other.’ – Kate Fagan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GINNINDERRA PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52287384715538,"sku":"9781760414030","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781760414030.jpg?v=1779314737","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781760414030","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}