Dianne Kennedy

Jellyfish Dreams Dianne Kennedy

'When scanning the collected mementos of a life's journey such can be equated to the many tentacles of the jellyfish. Each object has the potential to either transport on gossamer threads to relive the pleasure of heart strings taught with a mother's gentle love or even to capture the lessons of ancient myths. Yet the delicate tentacles can be potent barbs that can conjure up tortured remembrances of a race deprived of its birthright or a landscape sucked dry of the very essence of life. These are some of the mementos that Dianne unpacks in her anthology. What captures the reader unawares is that Dianne's poems have the ability to thread tentacles into our own memories where a luminescence of visions captured add a sense of reality to our own memories. Also, so many of the human and environment issues Dianne touches have the ability to sting for a second time. Much pleasure awaits the reader.' - Fay Forbes

This is the second collection of poetry by Dianne Kennedy. In creating the poems in Jellyfish Dreams the poet draws on her love of mythology as well as her own life's experiences. Her deep appreciation of nature and the beauty of her home environment in Sheffield - a small rural town nestled in the foothills of beautiful Mt Roland - have led her to being a passionate advocate for maintaining the unique and pristine wilderness of her home state, Tasmania. Some poems are based on real events, some imagined, from her life in Sydney and in smaller communities, and her travel experiences in search of her own truth. The poems selected for this book range from serious to humorous, as well as heartfelt comments on social injustice.