LK Holt, Birth Plan (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)

Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry 2020

Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry 2020

Birth Plan is LK Holt’s fourth full-length collection is a generous, sharp-edged, technically masterful and expansive collection from one of Australia’s foremost female poets. These poems are transformative, fiercely feminist, unrelenting in their clarity, and display a rare mastery of the musicality of language. Exploring the realities of mothering and loving in the late Anthropocene, Holt’s work is rigorous in its exploration and evocation of psychological truths and half-truths. Fearless and darkly humorous, these are poems that turn on a phoneme and give full life and song to the shimmering uncertainties and hard realities of selfhood.

LK Holt lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her previous full-length collections are Man Wolf Man (2007), Patience, Mutiny (2010), and Keeps (2014). She is a recipient of the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Grace Leven Prize, and has been longlisted for the Literature Society Gold Medal.

LK Holt, Birth Plan
2019. 148mm x 210mm. 98pp. 
ISBN 978-1-925735-07-9

Limited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.