Shey Marque

A haunting exploration of the intricate ties between our genetic legacy and environmental echoes. — Cassandra Atherton The powerfully evocative The Hum Hearers connects imagination, memory, and embedded feeling. These are beautifully conceived, salutary, and wonderfully transportative poems. — Paul Hetherington Brilliantly observational and meditative, the poems in The Hum Hearers detonate like muffled explosions. Generational trauma is counterbalanced by...

Shey Marque's debut full collection is wonderfully responsive to the complexity and sensuality of ocean, bush, animals, art, and human relationships. The poems are always wryly intelligent, self-aware, and carefully crafted across an impressive variety of forms. She brings to this rich collection the forensic eye, curiosity, and insight of both the scientist and the artist, revealing how much they...