Nomadic Author:Judy Johnson 'This afternoon while looking for my watch / I found a love letter from your mistress / In 1947 while searching for his lost goat / a Bedouin boy found the Dead Sea Scrolls'. The poems in Nomadic fuse myth, culture, history and emotion. Judy Johnston is alert to the complex interplay between the external world and the often terrifying inner one ... more »we carry with us. An earlier version of this book won the Wesley Michael Wright Prize. 'This powerful collection deals eloquently and humanely with the difficulties of experience. There are many fine psychological studies taking us into worlds of childhood and adult pain, while being equally sensitive to private rapture. I am struck by how much gets into these poems - how much openness, how much imagination.' Peter Boyle. 'Judy Johnston's poems are strong and surefooted. The world has presence: animals, voices, histories, objects are all given existence through her remarkable understanding and curiosity. This is a poetry at once worldly and refined.' Judith Beveridge.« less