CICADA CHIMES - Tecno-Libro

Cicada Chimes is set over a twenty-four-hour period covering several years in time lapse. it moves from a funeral service in Rookwood, to a honeymoon in Paris, to the morning markets in Serres, Greece, and a church service in Surry Hills. The twenty-four-hour time structure is Helen Koukoutsis&rsquo. way of exploring the effects of her father&rsquo.s death and mother&rsquo.s grief on her Australian-Greek Orthodox identity. Written with understated humour, these poems smile at the tensions between marriage and motherhood, memory and forgetfulness, and life and death. . &lsquo.Poignant, bittersweet memories. A journey from Greece to Australia, to Europe and back into the Ithaca of one&rsquo.s self. Poems that are lean, stripped to the bones of language with the calm tenacity of Emily Dickinson. Helen Koukoutsis questions tradition, religion, society, academia, her own strengths and frailties as a daughter, sister, wife, mother. And all the while the chimes of the cicadas in Rookwood Cemete