Lithosphere

Ben Walter

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Puncher & Wattman
01 September 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Compelling and strange, Ben Walter's debut poetry collection explores our eccentric connections to the natural world

the flora and fauna, water and wind that burst through the valleys and peaks of the lithosphere, the hard, rocky crust of the Earth that makes all life possible.

Driftwood groans towards the ocean, meadows of grass overrun a mountain, ruined teahouses serve up snow and the bushranger Rocky Whelan roars from his cave. With striking, shimmering language, Lithosphere delves into the peculiarities hidden in our relationship with the world outside.

By: Ben Walter
Imprint: Puncher & Wattman
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9781923099685
ISBN 10: 192309968X
Pages: 100
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ben Walter is a Walkley Award-winning essayist, the author of the short story collection What Fear Was, and winner of the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award. A past fiction editor at Island, his writing has appeared widely in Australian journals, including Meanjin, Overland and Griffith Review, and internationally in 3:AM Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review and The Cimarron Review. He lives in Lutruwita/Tasmania.