‘Clarion’ is launched

Clarion is an eco-poetic suite of words and images

Written and created by Australian artist and poet Jenny Pollak, it focuses on two extreme weather events since 2020 that decimated a small forest of casuarinas on the western foreshores of Pittwater, just north of Sydney. The poetry speaks in the voice of a woman as she negotiates her relationship with a landscape in crisis. The powerful spectre of the sea as a beautiful and destructive principle sits quietly behind the poems as the instrument of change.

Pollak’s haunting images punctuate the text to heighten and inform the poetry.

This magnificent collection of images and poems… is a love song, composed in syllables of sand, salt and sticks. …. Jenny Pollak reminds us that Country is still savage and strong, capable of great compassion. She reminds us that a relationship with Country is still vital and possible.    Judith Nangala-Crispin

If you haven’t heard a duduk before – don’t miss this opportunity to be transported!

Linsey Pollak, Jenny’s brother, has created a woodwind instrument – yes a duduk – from one of the fallen trees, and plays as a collaboration with Jenny as she reads.

Introducing the Liquid Amber range