Beetle Prayer
“I saw an egg, a Kinder Surprise and a Russian doll having an argument about existence”
Philip’s debut full collection of poetry is out now with Pitt St Poetry and beautifully illustrated by artist Caitlin Hespe.
Beetle Prayer is both a silly and somewhat serious book. Philip's poems flit back and forth, everything from a dialogue between a hunter and a thylacine, ridiculous non-matching acrostics and impassioned pieces about grief, meaning and rebuilding after the death of a family member.
““Philip looks around in awe and wonderment, how things are both ‘heinous and beautiful’ simultaneously and forever””