Empirical

*Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry* *Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry* The third poetry collection by LisaGorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literaryawards for both poetry and fiction. Lisa Gorton began writing Empirical when the Victorian Governmentof the time threatened to cut an eight-lane motorway through the heart of RoyalPark in Melbourne. She walked repeatedly in