Almost everyone thinks that wind power is a great advance, but it too can be done the wrong way. Berni M Janssen through an extraordinary series of poems that are both riveting and deeply saddening shares the stories of the people living in an idyllic country area into which wind turbines are erected. The world of nature, birds, trees, flowers as well as wind, water and dust come to life, while the world of those subjected to the body-grinding low-pitched sounds through so many sleepless nights fall apart. Berni M. Janssen is a highly respected performance poet and her starkly visual and visceral poems will leave audiences writhing in disbelief.
"Rejoice! berni janssen's new book! This book is easy to love: its rugged, soft, deft, exact forms. Action is embedded in things; politics is stitched into the wind. Set against the bamboozle clatter of corpspeak and co-option. It's a beautifully grounded book and it's going to make trouble."
Chris Mansell, Poet and Publisher
"In a constant eddy of wind and water, janssen unspools a blistering attack on corporate Australia's public manipulations, elisions of truth and scientific spinning. Her tools, a menagerie of wind turbines and the humans living amongst them-Dan, Cassandra, Charles, Una, and others. These poems fashion an epic grid that electrifies you, big energy at its absolute finest."
Kent Macarter, Poet and Managing Editor
"A heady consciousness ride through the changing synergies of mind body space in the world, be it natural, or constructed. One of Australian's treasures, berni janssen, a pioneering sound poet, is fully focused on the auditory as a means of experiencing the world. The voice of berni is loud and clear. She takes us with her into the auditory world as it is changing and asks us to reconsider 'the strange echo chamber we live in.'"
