pick up half under is architecturally effervescent and pulsates with the shock-rhythms of daily encounters. burrowes has an eye open to the traffic of life, and an ear close to the ground’s music.

geraldine burrowes is a Melbourne writer, artist, feminist and tree grower focused on contemporary poetry. She was shortlisted for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2016.

“The poems revel in their uncouth streak, off-road and with a ruinous attitude.”
—Ella O’Keefe