My teacher’s name is love: some poems for Prem by Victor Marsh
Clouds of Magellan Press – POETRY – 2022 – 76pp.

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A collection of poems examining love, self, devotion, and opening to a wider cosmos. Whimsical, meditative, rapturous, these poems are a contemporary expression of spirit.
there, wobbling on the wire
of my neighbour’s rooftop
aerial
backlit against
the early summer
sky
this young magpie riffs,
delirious with the possibilities
of joy
Victor Marsh is the author of Mr Isherwood Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood and the Search for the ‘Home Self’; the memoir The Boy in the Yellow Dress; and Speak Now: Australian Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage (editor).
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Distribution in Australia and New Zealand to bookshops and libraries by John Reed Books.
ISBN: 978-0-6453531-8-1 paperback
ISBN: 978-0-6453531-9-8 – ebook
ISBN: 978-0-6453531-7-4 – hardback