The Dark Room: Letters to Krista by Ruth Stacey & Krista Kay Pat Boram There is a rare combination

There is a rare combination of exactitude and wonder which leads the reader in and keeps them there

and won the Ingrid Jonker prize

These poems interrogate and poke fun at the expectations of people in a commodified culture with a wry humour

both tactful and deeply engaged

The Dark Room: Letters to Krista by Ruth Stacey & Krista Kay Pat Boram There is a rare combinationIn The Dark Room: Letters to Krista, Ruth Stacey and Krista Kay write a collaborative love letter to time and loss, a call and response that echoes through the spaces where our collective understanding of public tragedy collides with the vestiges of personal memory. Juxtaposing Staceys taut prose with Kays darkly evocative photographs (many of which document her friendship with tragic grunge era lovers Layne Staley and Demri Parrott), The Dark Room