KAYE ALDENHOVEN
Skin
A6 32pp ISBN 0-9580367-5-6 (updated ISBN: 978-0-9580367-5-7)
(cover illustration by Chris Mansell)
$9.90 including postage
Few poets are so hauntingly oblique, so good at knowing what to say and what to leave unsaid. ... Again, 'Becoming Fluent in Wailpiri' is a tour-de-force.
Patricia Prime in Stylus Poetry Review
Kaye Aldenhoven's political, loving and sensuous poems range over the meanings of skin with a clear and direct voice.
Skin is Aldenhoven's second book. Her first, In my Husband's Country (2001), was admired for her intimate perception of the untamed country of Kakadu, NT.
Aldenhoven has lived and worked in the Northern Territory for 33 years; these poems are intimately connected to that life, in all the deep, and in the the casual, ways it can be.The poems are about love, death, sex, children - and none about crocodiles.
Kaye Aldenhoven went to the Territory in 1971, promising her mother she would return to Adelaide after two years. Aldenhoven still lives in the Northern Territory, after teaching at Umbakumba, Yuendumu, Amoonguna, Kakadu, Alyangula and Batchelor.