ISBN 978-1-922776-22-8.
Death, poetry, and love are the bedrock of Simeon Kronenberg’s new poetry collection Still Black Water which consolidates the success of his first collection Distance (Pitt Street Poetry 2018). Beguiling love poems mix with sombre poems on illness and the deaths of cherished friends. The range is broad, from works about the poet’s beloved ‘second home’ in Indonesia to family history and meditations on poets which have formed and informed his practice: Australian contemporary poets like Anthony Lawrence as well as international practitioners like Adam Zagajewski, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds and Charles Simic. Simeon Kronenberg’s life’s work spans the parallel worlds of visual art and the written word in a moving palimpsest of memory and desire.
