Cassandra Complex

Sara Crane

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Puncher and Wattmann
01 May 2025

Poetry by individual poets

Cassandra Complex is a full-length work of poetry drawn from the writer's experience as a long-term childless person on the cusp of fading fertility. It explores isolation, neurodivergence and identity.

Behind the outlier and gritty perception of the world around the writer, is a core, mesmerised with the beauty of place, science and existential. With age and anonymity comes the writer's ability to sink into the corners of third spaces unobtrusively.

These poems examine the outside with raw candor and whip-smart wordcraft to reveal inner workings we yearn to keep secret. Cassandra Complex is an unapologetic body of work that draws inspiration from the Greek myth and explores the meaning of voice in the present. It soars with hope and tenacity.

By: Sara Crane
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9781923099562
ISBN 10: 1923099566
Pages: 82
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sara Crane is a poet, performer and lawyer, working on Awabakal and Gadigal lands. Sara has been published in the Newcastle Poetry Prize, Babyteeth, Bareknuckle Poet, Gemzine as well as Grieve, Women of Words and Girls on Key Anthologies. She has also published a chapbook titled Only Skin Separates Us. Sara is a poignant wordsmith cutting across page, hip hop and slam origins, Hilltop Hoods/APRAAMCOS Initiative winner, as well as an AFTRS screenwriting graduate. An inventive explorateur in written form, she also works with people experiencing drug dependency.