This is Helga Jermy's fourth collection of poetry. Her work has been widely published and recognised in national and

international competitions. Born in England and now living on Lutruwita-Tasmania's northwest coast, her work explores life in all its complexity.

These poems explore time through the hourglass of self, reflecting on memories of family, work, place, socio-political change and the day-to-day cabin pressure of existence.

'When you stop and free yourself from schedules, space opens up and the world rushes in demanding to be understood. Helga Jermy's poems speak strongly of the breadth of experience that can shape a life and the ways in which we continue to learn and to understand ourselves, often in retrospect as the years accumulate.'

- Anne Collins

Being denied access to a place by necessity you invent it. In these poems, the author explores cultural identity and loss as the daughter of an Estonian dislocated from his family and country by post-war turmoil. Based on fractured truths, fairy tales and longings, this collection is a personal mosaic of a land and her place in it.

Little bones in red clay is an unearthing: a small and personal quest to discover why we pursue the things we do - why we migrate, why art matters, how political dialogue sparks our veins, how love of landscape makes us tread carefully but awkwardly. Helga Jermy's poems explore identity and place at the interface of global fragility, testing light and dark, and the persistence of play.