The Secret Frontiers - Softcover

'Ours is an ecological age and Judy Gahagan confronts its formidable challenge with a sharp sensitivity and life-wisdom. With a striking lyrical grace her poems explore not only the habitats of dispossessed people but, also, the abiding power of Nature and our creative place within it. Again and again, her poems take us beyond the global hype and connect us to an infinitely larger universe. They are essential acts of restoration and readjustment; an eco-poetics in action.' Peter Abbs'Judy Gahagan is a writer always in her own skin, always apart from what she observes yet, at the same time, imaginatively and passionately engaged with it. Her prevailing focus in this book is on strangeness and otherness. But otherness is neither assimilated to the familiar, nor rejected; it's given a new embodiment through wonderfully fresh and accurate language.' Carole Satyamurti

The secret frontiers of these poems extend between the fantastic images of people from remote cultures and the indigenous poet in a shared quarter of the city; the glimpsed frontiers between the pasts and presents of places; the virtual boundaries between scenes from across the world and their instant arrival as news. They are even found here between championship football and its archetypal roots. Thus the secret frontiers cross the endless zones of transformation between external world and the interior landscapes that make poetry.