Ground Water by Matthew Hollis 2016 with oceans and islands as

with oceans and islands as seen from a small boat

Seemingly mundane subjects

playing with sense and nonsense

He acknowledges world-traumas — the Final Solution

here the vapours of various histories sublimate into Lauder’s vivid solidifications – poems that render the distance and otherness of places and times as touchable and smelt

Ground Water by Matthew Hollis 2016 with oceans and islands asIn this sparkling debut, Matthew Hollis immerses us in the undercurrents of our lives. Love and loss are buoyed by a house full of milk, an orchard underwater, the laws of walking on water. Rainwater, floodwater, flux the liquid landscapes which shift relentlessly in Ground Water threaten and comfort by turns. Matthew Hollis's poems are brimming with courage in adversity as well as the promise of renewal, culminating in a powerful sequence about a