About the book
In the pages of Halfway to Everywhere the giant’s wife gets a voice at last, the apple in the garden of Eden is reduced to a distraction and the wolf paints Red Riding Hood’s nails with Coral Fantasy. These are legends on repeat, fairy tales in revision and Bible stories in reverse. Halfway might be up a beanstalk, deep in a dark night, a note in a book, the current that takes you out beyond the rip. And there are plain old love poems, too, and real-life frights. Vivienne Ullrich invites readers to strap in for the ride.
‘Meditating on life, fairy tale and art, these powerful cautionary poems tell us truth comes only after all the stories are disassembled and the secrets dead-headed.’ — Peter Rawnsley
