The Hum Hearers

By Shey Marque
Published by UWA Publishing
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

"A haunting exploration of the intricate ties between our genetic legacy and environmental echoes." Cassandra Atherton

"The powerfully evocative The Hum Hearers connects imagination, memory and embedded feeling. These are beautifully conceived, salutary and wonderfully transportative poems." Paul Hetherington

"Brilliantly observational and meditative, the poems in The Hum Hearers detonate like muffled explosions. Generational trauma is counterbalanced by hidden wells of resilience and subterranean solidarities. The poems, written in sprung prose, offer the counter-memories of women held together by the cycles of life that fall upon them with quiet devastation. The piquant aphorisms and subtle epiphanies in these poems rewrite the banalities of experience in a newly epic register." 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award judges

Shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry at the 2026 NSW Literary Awards
 

About The Author

Shey Marque

Shey Marque is a poet and former clinical haematology and research scientist from Boorloo. She holds a BAppSc(Hons) in Biomedical Science, PhD in Molecular Pathology, and MA in Writing. Currently she coordinates the Hospital Poets Program (Australia) and serves on the Board of Writing WA. ‘Keeper of the Ritual’ (UWAP 2019), her debut collection, was shortlisted for the Noel Rowe Poetry Award. ‘The Hum Hearers’ (UWAP 2025), shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award, is her second collection. 

Product Details

  • Publisher: UWA Publishing (March 1, 2025)
  • Length: 90 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781760803001

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