Dashboard Cartographer
T R Murrell
Trudie Murrell’s Dashboard Cartographer starts with good ol’ fashioned [male] freedom
symbols – cars and hittin’ the road – but puts women at the wheel for a hairpin turn into
something unexpected: Love. Realization. Acceptance. Self-acceptance. With a gentle humor
that belies the deep emotion of these poems, Murrell’s keen, almost technical eye rides shotgun
to her humanity and compassion. Her seemingly-effortless observations are beautifully rendered
moments of clarity along the travel route, coming like streetlights one after another to show the
way. If there is still sweetness and truth to be found in simply loving one another, this collection
provides us with a perfect roadmap to it. – Emily XYZ
T R Murrell
Trudie Murrell is a child of steamy North Queensland who is now a Meanjin Brisbane-based writer and performer. Her plays have been performed in Australia and The United Kingdom. Her publishing credits include The Green Fuse, Macmillan English 9 for the Australian Curriculum, Cordite, Spoken in One Strange Word and Brisbane New Voices IV. Her work has been shortlisted for the Fish International Poetry Prize and Puncher and Wattmann's First Book Poetry Prize. She has been a feature poet at the Brisbane Poetry Festival, Queensland Writers Festival, Speed Poets, the Brisbane City Libraries Poetry and Burlesque Programme and Triple Z Radio.
The Dashboard Cartographer is her first full length poetry collection.