Khairani Barokka's first full poetry collection, Rope, is a
spellbinding and impressive debut, kaleidoscopic in detail and richly
compelling. With a meticulous artist's instinct, these finely-tuned
poems ask urgent questions about our impact upon the environment, and
examine carefully the fragile ties that bind our lives and our fate to
our planet, our ecosystems and to our fellow humans.
Sensual and ecologically attentive, Rope draws on issues of climate
change, sexuality, violence, nature, desire and the body. Lush with
detail, alert to its own distinct sounds, this is poetry in urgent and
vivacious action - intent on finding vivid joy and hope amidst the
destruction and dangers of the Anthropocene era.