‘Shari Lynelle’s Lunette offers an abundant and intuitive poetics that reimagines ekphrasis as a type of wind-breath sounding, an ecology of making and unmaking, that is also grounded in flesh, quartz, history, “tree memory”, and earth. Lynelle insists that each poem is a “poem” in its title, as their architectures tremble or unfurl in constant flux, yet the words still retain their grain and breath. In “the if-ness of your looking”, these poems are also far-seeing as they lean not only towards their own places but also out to other-being in the precarity of the more-than-human world. This is luminous poetry, urgent yet holding, airily sturdy, even in “the ruins of all this undoing”.’

—Jill Jones

Shari Lynelle is the author of Foxstruck and Other Collisions (Puncher & Wattmann, 2021) which was Highly Commended in the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (2022). Her debut collection, The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Puncher & Wattmann, 2015), was also Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Awards. Other accolades include the inaugural Peter Steele Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize, and the inaugural Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award. Her poems are regularly featured in journals and anthologies, such as Best Australian Poems and the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthology over many years. In 2025, Shari was a guest editor of Plumwood Mountain Journal’s special edition The Braided Gift, with Lucy Van. Shari holds Master of Arts and Doctoral degrees from the University of Melbourne and currently lives and works on unceded Djarra Country, in Castlemaine, Victoria.