Gemma White
Melbourne based poet Gemma White late last year dropped her second book, Oh My Rapture. The initial theme of the book is poems that where responses to Nick Caves Red Hand Files, but the core of the topics are the mundane little things that make life fascinating. Oh My Rapture comes off the back of Gemma’s first book, Furniture is Disappearing, another set of autobiographical poems that shows everyday story’s that we can all relate to, that are more fascinating that anything you see on telly these days. Short story’s with minimum word use that grab the reader that will make you laugh, cry, or draw any kind of emotion. That’s the showing of a true wordsmith, that can get a response from there reader under a 100 words. Munster: what was it about poetry that appealed to you? Gemma: why poetry? It’s kind of the laziest form of writing I can do. If I was to write a novel, I’m like oh my god how I would even do that. With poetry its little fragments of life, little fragments of ti...