The Sea Chest

Kerry Greer

ISBN 10: 0645651338 / ISBN 13: 9780645651331

Published by Recent Work Press, AU, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sea Chest
• Publisher: Recent Work Press, AU
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0645651338
• ISBN 13: 9780645651331
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 0.89H x 22.86D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 0.89 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 177 grams

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Synopsis

The Sea Chest is a visceral, moving, and emotionally layered account of life in the aftermath of loss. In 2017, Kerry Greer's husband Gabriel ended his life with horrific violence, dying on the kitchen floor of his parents' home.

Haunting in its honesty, and underpinned by a connection to the spirituality of the natural world, The Sea Chest traces the impact of Gabriel's death over years and continents. The collection provides a counter-narrative to ideas of grief portrayed in sympathy cards or Hollywood movies. There is no redemptive narrative arc, no going "back to normal." But there is the old love-the indissoluble thread that is now called grief.

Imagistic and probing, The Sea Chest speaks directly into the void. In the stillness, in the grey: a ripple, an answer from the ether, asking the reader to listen, to not turn away. The Sea Chest becomes a holding space for grief-for the things which cannot be said out loud, but which need to be voiced. This is poetry as invocation, poetry as love enacted, poetry as gateway to the liminal and the sacred.