Turbulence by Thuy On

Thuy On is an arts & literary journalist and critic who has written for a range of publications including The Age/SMH, The Australian, The Saturday Paper, ArtsHub and Books+Publishing. She's the Books Editor of The Big Issue. Turbulence is her first book, published by UWAP.

Turbulence is a collection of poetry. It’s about love, loss, separation, and renewal, online dating, sex, longing, rejection, desire, and hope. All the big themes condensed in tiny poetic forms.

 It’s ultimately about the turbulence of life.

 It’s also a collection that also luxuriates in the beauty and nuances of language: there are poems about punctuation, fonts and grammar. ampersands, semicolons and verbs.