The World and All It Sees

Spanning five years, ‘The World and All It Sees’, are poems and drawings that grapple with the importance of the Covid years and lockdown in Melbourne, the longest lockdown city in the world. They seek to find solace in nature and beauty in simplicity….to make sense of complex world events and question deeply held views on one’s relationship to the natural world and ‘resources’. There are insights into love, the feelings of the heart that can go unnoticed. A deep dive into the awareness of the present moment, when walking and looking. Finding a word prayer in some days when faith is strong. Finding a broken heart when all of life’s injustices are too much. And having survived? finding hope and love, one labrador cuddle at a time.

Comments for Bee’s other collections
“I cannot really express how wonderful your book is. I read “Trees- Destiny Entwined” and had goose bumps – it moved me so much. “We are mother and child” brought tears to my eyes ( I am a softie!) Brilliant words and illustrations in all of your poems.”
Professor Jayashri Kulkarni

This collection stands powerfully among your contemporaries, particularly in the immense variety you command in theme, structure, tone and imagery.
Louisa John-Krol