RISE

In RISE, Camille Delaquise gathers poems that are at once intimate and political, questioning and luminous. This second collection moves through freedom, democracy, capitalism, language, inequality, ecology, memory and care — tracing the forces that shape modern life while staying grounded in the emotional texture of lived experience. The poems move between personal reckonings and public realities with striking ease, from resilience, friendship and creativity to labour, poverty, housing, feminism and the fate of the natural world. What emerges is a body of contemporary poetry that confronts the structures that diminish human possibility while still making room for tenderness, self-determination and hope. RISE invites readers into a vision of poetry not as retreat, but as illumination: a way of thinking, feeling and rising.

Wildflower
Watch your language
Very good days
Out in the cold
One Little Mistake
Scar tissue
Take your time
Happiness
Lets not pretend
Breaking bread
Hypocrisy
The gratitude poem
Framed perspectives
The real market
The poor choice
Renting the dream
Fear
Awakened
Seasons of thought
Muse
Australian summer
Lost potential
Roots
Female voices
There are signs of hope
Playing my last card
Anger
A poet I am
To market to market
Narrow lens
A day of peace
Love will always find the kind
Charity
Paying my (artist) dues
More please?
Ghosts in the machine
A contented heart
Why I had to be a political activist
Pain reduction
Rebellion
Comfort
The clock is ticking
Little bird
Seize the day
One percent
Relentless drudgery
The wind in my hair
The economy is everybody’s business
Choosing optimism
A tale of magic & mischief
A shiver down the spine
The savage
Winter is near
Let them fly
Lost world
Let’s talk tax
Deep in debt
Childhood homes
Ideals of inconsistency
Where does the light get in?