TINEKE VAN DER EECKEN
A PLACE
TO LAND
"these are portals into worlds beyond our own, yet they are worlds Van der Eecken guides us through with a paternal love"
– Scott Patrick-Mitchell (SPM)
"Her poetry is a raft — both frail and sturdy — that can cross the treacherous and fertile oceans of nature and culture. "
– Liana Joy Christensen
“the range of subjects is vast, born of lived experience. These poems delight in the discipline of details: forensic and personal.”
– Annamaria Weldon
ABOUT THE BOOK
A PLACE TO LAND is the new poetry collection by novelist and poet Tineke Van der Eecken, published by Mulla Mulla Press. Within a suite of 74 poems, the poet explores the notion of 'place' - within a family, within an intimate relationship, within a country and within our world. This exploration is sometimes challenging and uncomfortable: what is it like to exist within a world that holds dysfunction and abuse? What is it like to be a European woman in an African country facing upheaval? What do we become from these experiences? How do these experiences resonate when landing in Western Australia? These themes are not new, yet the poet speaks with a new voice. As a multi-lingual, well-travelled writer, Van der Eecken offers insights and understandings that only one with diverse cultural immersion could produce.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tineke Van der Eecken is a Belgian-born Australian writer with a background in social sciences and a strong interest in art and culture. She is the author of Traverse, a travel memoir that navigates the reader through the landscape of Madagascar on the one side and her marriage on the other.
Apart from Traverse, she also published Café d’Afrique in 2012, a memoir about her cultural restaurant in Zambia. Her first collection of poems 'A Place To Land' was published by Mulla Mulla Press in 2022.
Her poetry and non-fiction are published in Australia, Europe and in the UK. Tineke lives in Perth.
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