Oriole Elegy

Jessica Aldridge was a leading voice in Australian postwar poetry. Widely published, she was known for her lucid, intellectually precise verse that was shaped by a life of quiet resilience and close observation. Rooted in the Australian countryside and steeped in memory, her work reflects on love, family and the long aftershocks of loss.  This collection traces the arc of a poet who found clarity, meaning and beauty in language, in landscape and in the spaces where memory lingers. It covers