A mixture of free verse and haiku, Ocean Hearted is a cohesive collection of direct, honest poems from Brisbane poet Graham Nunn. I loved the references to a Brisbane I know. More and more books, films, songs, and poems are finding Brisbane (and surrounds) a natural setting, but Nunn clearly also sees it as a city ripe for mythologising. As he writes in the opening lines of the opening poem, 'Grounded':

Coming back, the land didn't know him.
Not the soft air, peaks and skitte More...

This is one of the best books of poetry written in Australia.
Graham Nunn is an amazingly skilled poet. All his loves of water, landscapes, home, family and even fishing are here.