boots

Like a "compulsory streak of lightning in an optional summer sky", Nadia Rhook's poems speak to the regrets of memory and the terrors of complicity. These poems examine the stubborn imperatives of race and entitlement, as signalled by the title itself, indicative of colonising boots on stolen country. Rhook turns her lucid gaze equally on landscape, colonisation, motherhood, whiteness, location and dislocation. The result is a collection of poems that triumph in a subtle interplay of language, intelligence and soul-searching.