Border Crossing (Paperback or Softback)

A poignant exploration of identity and place, traversing Australia and America.

Caitlin Maling's Border Crossing delves into the complexities of being Australian in America, where conflicting voices and identities of home and abroad seek definition. Maling's poems emphasize place, geography, and environment, creating a vivid tapestry of cultural displacement and personal transformation.

This collection resonates with readers interested in:

• The search for identity in a globalized world
• The experience of longing for home
• The power of geography and environment on personal experience

Border Crossing offers a powerful and moving exploration of what it means to belong, to remember, and to evolve across borders. For readers of contemporary poetry and those seeking to understand the Australian experience in a global context.

Caitlin Maling grew up in Western Australia, mainly in the suburbs around Fremantle. She moved to Melbourne to complete her BA in 2007, then to Cambridge to complete a Masters of Philosophy in Criminological Research. She returned to Perth and then left for Houston to complete an MFA in poetry, for which she received the WA Department of Culture and the Arts International Scholarship. Caitlin Maling’s first volume of poetry, Conversations I’ve Never Had, won the Newcastle Poetry Prize under 35s (2014) and was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2014). Poems from Conversations I’ve Never Had were reproduced in Best Australian Poems, Australian Book Review, Westerly, Green Mountains Review, Threepenny, Australian Poetry and Meanjin, among others.