‘Stars Like Salt’ – ziplines of joy

The sweep of stars lifts our gaze

The luminous insights of Stars Like Salt: Poems by Cathy Altmann emerge from the isolations of long COVID. The sweep of stars lifts our gaze, while salt reminds us of what is close to hand – tears, waves and the prospect of healing.

Angela Costi began her launch: I am happy to announce the triumphant arrival of Cathy Altmann’s third book of poetry. Triumphant because despite the public and personal exhaustion of COVID, with its insistence on longevity, Cathy birthed, gathered and salvaged thirty-nine poems, turning them into a collection of attentive and intuitive distillations for our times. It is difficult to climb out of illness and to create resonance for others however, Cathy gifts us with this ability.  

These poems of spider webs, sand grains, tidelines, small fish by a pier, trees that sing are truly, in her sure hands, ‘ziplines of joy’. Kevin Brophy

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