Nature Lover

Efi Hatzimanolis is an independent scholar, writer and poet working in the areas of cultural criticism, literary and textual studies with a particular interest in the critical intersections between identity politics and representation. She has published feminist critical essays on cultural differences in writing in numerous journals and books. Her short stories appeared in the anthologies Mothers from the Edge and its companion Fathers from the Edge (Owl Publishing 2006, 2015). Her poetry has been published online in project365plus and in the anthology, Southern Sun, Aegean Light (Arcadia, 2011). All the poems collected in Nature Lover were originally published online in draft form as part of Project 366. Most have been revised. She lives in Wollongong, NSW.

“Nature Lover is a selection of poems written with immense subtlety and expressive density, simultaneously. Efi Hatzimanolis’ poems pulsate with this strange antinomy.” These are the opening remarks in Vrasidas Karalis’ introduction. He continues: “Hatzimanolis dives into the natural world with the ecstasy and the intoxication of someone with a professed mission to find in its labyrinth her own personal Minotaur… Reading Hatzimanolis’ poems is like falling into the abyss of the primal scene: a separation and a loss takes place somewhere or as suggested by Greek tragedy, behind the scenes. We hear the whispers and the cries, the broken sentences...”