Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Vasily Kandinsky where space makes the isolated

where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws

poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections

Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look

and the possibility of renewing words such as ‘spirit’ and ‘soul’ in a materialist culture

Based on a thousand mile road trip through New South Wales

Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Vasily Kandinsky where space makes the isolatedJanette Ayachi's dazzling first collection moves between remembered and imagined spaces as she celebrates the world's variousness, and the energies and exhaustions of the body. Revelling in the many voices she might find for herself, Ayachi locates herself in both her Algerian and Scottish roots, her relationships with her family and lovers, her own motherhood, and an equally joyful but more precarious exploration of desire. More than anything, this