Svetlana Sterlin, If Movement Was a Language Her third volume of poetry

Her third volume of poetry Eien ni Konai Basu(The Bus that Never Comes)

it meets the world with honesty

of finding that not all of one’s identities have been torn out at the roots

signs and associations are generated by author and reader alike

Svetlana Sterlin, If Movement Was a Language Her third volume of poetryWinner of the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award Commended in the 2024 Anne Elder Award 'A highly individual work that depicts the life world of the poet as swimming coach, whose intimate experiences of water, buoyancy, speed, fluidity and the locales of swimming pools become symbols of growing up between far flung countries, societies and languages. Acting as a set of theme and variations, the poems achieve a strong sense of character and of