The Green Room

Cath Kenneally’s The Green Room is a collection of beautiful and energized poems that takes stock of where we stand, in planetary terms, as caretakers of the seas, lakes and rivers of the world. These are poems about water, immersion, the Blue Planet. They plumb the depths, as it were, of our integral human connection with ocean and water.

The Green Room deepens the environmental concerns of Cath Kenneally’s previous collections. The unifying theme is water but the author’s treatment of the topic revels in our cultural baggage even as it unpacks it, remixing and reminting those half-truths we tell ourselves and each other. These poems point in multiple directions, finding humour, joy and solace in the teeth of our existential predicament; they are freighted with epigrammatic charm but also fleet-footed with an easy, chatty fluency that belies their precision.    Aidan Coleman

Available as Digital book (downloadable PDF) or Softcover book