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Tasmanian Literary Awards

Chasing Marie Antoinette All Over Paris by Adrienne Eberhard (Black Pepper)

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Chasing Marie Antoinette All Over Paris

Adrienne Eberhard’s new collection Chasing Marie Antoinette all Over Paris forges connections between past and present, public and private, and human and non-human, exploring what it means to be truly at home in the world, whether her beloved Tasmania, France or Indonesia. Ranging in subject matter from native grasses, ducklings, and footy games to cave paintings, family and 9000 years-deep ancestry, she draws on personal, as well as cultural, history to investigate possibility, love and loss. With their focus on the small and the precious, these poems draw our attention to what is often overlooked, enabling us to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. She demonstrates how well she can move from sensual evocation of place to tenderness and love of the human. This is a book whose language, because of its precision and sensuality, does justice to a wide range of experiences. Eberhard’s poems seem expounded wholly from both body and spirit. (Judith Beveridge, Westerly)

About the author

Adrienne Eberhard's poetry has been set to music and performed in concerts, recorded for Radio National, reproduced in calligraphy exhibitions and translated into French. Her work has been widely anthologised, most recently in Fishing For Lightning (UQP, 2021), and published in the US, the UK and France. Chasing Marie Antoinette All Over Paris is her fifth collection. Agamemnon's Poppies was awarded second place in the Anne Elder Prize and This Woman was shortlisted for the 2013 Tasmania Book Prize. Adrienne teaches creative writing to senior students in Hobart.