Memory Creases is Geoffrey Miller’s second collection of poetry.
His poems are very pleasant to read. One of them beautifully describes the Devonport Community Garden. Another describes the Tutankhamun Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. They are all tender, thoughtful, nostalgic, and playful.
Copies of Memory Creases are available from Ginninderra Press and the Hobart Bookshop. Copies are also available from Geoffrey Miller via Facebook.
Two poems from Memory Creases are below.
‘Longing’
Longing is a child’s kite
black against the sky.
Dancing on a cord of desire.
Rolling upward to hope.
Hissing downward to destruction.
A wrestle between the anchored
and the free.
‘Adoration’
Your laughing eyes keep dancing
past the windows of my mind
Your golden hair waves
through my sky of time
I live beneath a rainbow
of love you’ve given me
Within your arms of wonder
I recline.
About Geoffrey Miller
Geoffrey Miller is a retired timber worker who loves to write poetry.
He grew up in and around the mining towns of Tasmania’s west coast, but has lived his adult life in the north-west of the state.
Geoffrey explains that what he writes comes from what he experiences and observes ‘as life ripples by’.
Blurb
‘For much of each day, we hide what is in our hearts, tuck away the child in us, and save our more curious or adventurous thoughts for ‘some other time’. Geoff Miller’s poems draw the heart, the child, and the most elusive of contemplations lovingly onto the page. Read these poems. For their tenderness. For their playfulness. And for the pleasures of an attentive and gentle mind. Memory Creases is a delightful second collection from the warmth and wisdom of a poet well worth engaging with.’ – Kristen Lang
Technical information
Memory Creases, Ginninderra Press 2020, 112pp, ISBN 9781760419974, paperback, RRP $25.00
