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Fotoula Reynolds explores life, family, origins, and her newfound passion for words, in and amongst those deceptively gentle Australian suburbs, where fear, hope, loss and and comfort can entail from the same landscape of pale bricks, disorderly gardens and hidden eucalypt strewn rills.

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Fotoula Reynolds' voice spans generations and continents. Her poems are an odyssey between places and moments, all in a rich landscape of belonging. A grandfather's sunstruck house built in the year she was born, visited by a granddaughter never seen, but made alive by returning. There are questions of the human condition, 'What does it mean to have a second chance?', wrapped in a life at peace with the ordered natural world where we, 'slip into the afternoon'. Her words bridge the older emigre's dislocation, 'I sometimes catch my mother searching for the country she left behind in foreign films and in the international food aisle', but an overwhelming joy in the beauty of things pervades, life is a glory despite occasions of separation, 'turning stones into flowers'. A child in awe to the silhouette of a mountain, reaches over oceans and nations, to be one with our environment 'where beech trees beg you to listen.' Take the time to hear. James Walton

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