Mark Tredinnick is the author of several poetry collections, including Bluewren Cantos (2013), Fire Diary, and nine other acclaimed works. He is also the author of three books of nonfiction: Reading Slowly at the End of Time (2013), a memoir of the reading life, as well as The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir and Australia’s Wild Weather. Tredinnick was awarded the Montreal Poetry Prize in 2011 and the Cardiff Poetry Prize in 2012. He lives along the Wingecarribee River in New South Wales.

The Kingfisher

by Mark Tredinnick
For Maureen Harris


And so each bird throws the idea of herself
                                                    ahead of herself, up the river—
A line of spiritual thought without a sinker—

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