Jehanne Mehta experiences the Earth, or Nature, as a living being, but not as something out there, outside us. We are all part of one another. The Earth teaches us about ourselves. What the Earth undergoes is intimately connected with what we experience and suffer, but also with what we are becoming and what we are capable of transforming. Thus Jehanne’s writing, emerging from her own inner journey, is committed to transformation and invites us to awaken to our inner selves and to the Earth. Entering the Narrows is a definitive selection of Jehanne’s highly regarded poetry from across her career, organised in ten thematic sections.
Entering the Narrows: Selected Poems of Jehanne Mehta
POETRY
‘Harvested from a creative practice sustained over decades, this selection of Jehanne Mehta’s finest poems reveals her deep and transformative communion with non-human nature and the conscious artistry of her craft. Embracing both the mythic realms and the depredations of modernity, Jehanne’s work brims with heart and wild soul.’
Helen Moore
‘The combination of the eternal with the everyday and the local provides an energy and a theme that unite this collection … Most of all I find in the poetry a blend of celebration and lament, of joy and elegy … These poems are flowers woven into the barricades of protest.’
Philip Rush
‘Though these poems often move with the intensity of dreams – the kind that draw you inexorably into their most resonant images and symbols – their true power lies in the rootedness of Jehanne’s language and how it allows the reader to move without blinking between worlds.’
Adam Horovitz
