A Kaleidoscope of Paintings

‘To listen to South Australian poet Airlie Jane Kirkham’s latest collection is to listen to a musical mind at work. I greatly admire the way in which her poems evoke such delight in the life forces of nature, despite the restrictions of her own reality. Her description of the simple beauty of the natural world and the permutations of its colours, images and sounds weave vibrantly through her poems. Kirkham’s language is sprightly, playful and capable of surprising the reader into a heightened ap