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The Horizon Shift Sideways displays an informed curiosity about the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it - both human and animal - and the entanglements and interactions that exist between these. The unique directness of her work is a result of the combination of the scientific and the aesthetic, combined with characteristic clear-eyed observation. 'What a delight these poems are: various, personal; full of incident, observation, visual and tactile sensitivity, intelligent comment. The lines unfold in an easy inevitability which makes one, to quote Thompson, ""contemplate your place / in the natural order of things"". Irish poet Eavan Boland regards a poem as ""a forceful engagement between a life and a language"". This rings true for Alison Thompson's work.' - Brook Emery

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Alison Thompson is a poet, short story writer and veterinarian. Born in Melbourne, she had a free-range childhood in the Western District region of Victoria where her parents owned the only general store in a tiny country town that had seven houses, two churches, a school, a grain depot, train station and no pub. After school she moved to Sydney and completed a veterinary science degree at Sydney university. She has spent most of her adult life has been spent in NSW where she still works part-time as a practising veterinarian.

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