Kate Lilley, Tilt Cities makes playful and lyrical

Cities makes playful and lyrical incursions into myth to explore the nature of grief for a mother while becoming a mother

its communal virtues and constraints

Much of it written while resident at the Keesing Studio in Paris

Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books

She was shortlisted in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards for both the Emerging Queensland Writer Manuscript Award and the Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award

Kate Lilley, Tilt Cities makes playful and lyricalWinner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2019) Tilt follows the skewed itinerary of attachment and loss, possession and dispossession; the movement of people and things, from Greta Garbos Manhattan exile to the Green Bans of 1970s Sydney to the precarious passages of deracinated subjects. In its detours through the copia of material history, lived experience and the archive of poetic forms, the book itself becomes a teeming repository of the