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How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is a conversation in poems about the taboo and invisible experiences of female bodies. Themes include the infertile and the aged as abject. Women' s representation in literature is typically self-sacrificing with the aged and childless seen as pitiful. Collyer gives agency to alternative experiences of womanhood to disrupt women' s consignment to nature as earth mother. This poetry-cum-memoir juxtaposes bodies with ecology and a poetics of space to represent domestic trauma and escape. Home is a frequent setting as a place to dread and ultimately escape representing family violence towards women. How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up was shortlisted for the eminent Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. |
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