Jack & Mollie (& Her)

Vibrantly playful and formally extraordinary, Albistion's exuberant long poem captures the voices of two very likeable dogs and their unlikely 'ownee', offering a gloriously oblique portrait of the canine adventures that map a household. Jack and Mollie's observant commentary of 'Her' give the book its emotional compass, while the syllabic structure and dynamic rhythms lend it muscle and pulse.


. . . up here I have the high eyes to identify my all-around of course

I must go the way below some often as I have the depend on the sniff to comprehend the every but her shoulder is of the significant special on account of my near-near to Her & we

are of the similar see which from a philosophical brings us much close there is more to life than feet feet feet I have the assure . . .

Vibrantly playful and formally extraordinary, Albistion's exuberant long poem captures the voices of two very likeable dogs and their unlikely 'ownee', offering a gloriously oblique portrait of the canine adventures that map a household. Jack and Mollie's observant commentary of 'Her' give the book its emotional compass, while the syllabic structure and dynamic rhythms lend it muscle and pulse.

'Jordie Albiston's dance with form is a sophisticated yet radical gambol . . . one senses her starting to take up her place in a future version of how we will come to recognise Australian Poetry.'Dan Disney