Matthew Pullar

Falling autumn leaves, bare winter branches, bushfires and quarantine-these are poems that chronicle the ordinary and strange in our times. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Matthew Pullar's latest collection of poems seeks to find space for grief and for our neighbour in the same open heart.

Matthew Pullar's latest collection contains all new poems written during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a series of reflections on the experience of Australia's strictest lockdown in Melbourne in the middle of the year.

This volume brings together three books of poetry by Matthew Pullar, The Swelling Year, Les Feuilles Mortes and Anno Domini, taking you on a journey through sacred and ordinary time and the different seasons of the soul and the world around us. Moving from the everyday experience of suburban life to the distress of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pullar's poetry gives voice to the struggle to find the holy and lasting in a changeable and fragile world.

How does the heavenly meet with the very everyday in our lives? The Swelling Year is a cycle of poems seven years in the making: a journey through all the seasons of the ancient church calendar, from Advent through Lent, Easter and into our most ordinary days of waiting and doubt. This first anniversary edition of The Swelling Year comes with a new preface and two previously unpublished poems.

Falling autumn leaves, bare winter branches, bushfires and quarantine-these are poems that chronicle the ordinary and strange in our times. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Matthew Pullar's latest collection of poems seeks to find space for grief and for our neighbour in the same open heart.

A cycle of poems for all of life's seasons - moving through the seasons of the church year, from the expectancy of Advent through to the start of the next year. These poems take the reader on a journey to find where the holy meets the everyday in our lives.