This brilliant new collection by Philip Salom recalls his internationally acclaimed 'Sky Poems' and confirms his reputation as one of Australia's major poets of imagination and narrative invention. At the bottom of a well a woman who has been murdered and dumped by corrupt police dreams the voices of people who have recently died. Deep underground, she is the silent witness and narrator of their earth poems - as she drifts in artesian streams towards the coast.
'The Well Mouth' is a work of empathy and unexpectedness. As a book it is lyrical and sardonic, humorous and bare, and it accumulates into a work of great beauty and grace. It is his strangest and most beautiful book yet.
