Courtney Peppernell

Pillow Thoughts is arranged in sections for different kinds of hurt, and readers are told to turn to the one that matches rather than to read it through.

Peppernell is Australian and the poems are short, direct and unornamented, which is exactly the objection critics make and the reason the books sell to people who do not otherwise read poetry.

She has written across several volumes in the same register plus a novel. Take it as consolation writing rather than as literary poetry and it does what it sets out to do.