Réplica (2022)

"Réplica is stunning. It is fresh, endlessly surprising, and lyrically exhilarating. The power of its invention produces an excitement for the listener and reader akin to uncovering a world of possibility in language and images. These are such powerful poems: controlled yet white-hot with verbal energy." —David Morley

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Valid, Virtual, Vegetable Reality (2018)

Selected by Anthony V. Capildeo
to win the 2017 Melita Hume Prize

"This is a distinctive, urban voice, which holds on to speaking and feeling throughout states of fragmentariness. Through the fractures in its language, perceptions, and experiences, things still truly matter. This is evidenced in the habit of thorough delicate observation that translates into the ability suddenly, and aptly, to evoke a pastel dianthus or a satellite signal, or to draw unexpectedly on earlier, traditional forms without falling under their yoke. It is evidenced, too, in the engagement with ‘secondary worlds’ of film and other visual art, not ekphrastically, but as part of processing everything: the various figures, situations, scenes and would-be-meanings cracking with violent variety, unassimilable chasms in friendship, unnameable proximities, and tender moments of weird connexion. Even if you have not lived lives resembling those depicted here, whether their worlds of work or experimentation, you know that these lives are aspects of yours. As the Melita Hume Prize is for a first full-length collection, it seems good to award it to a book which made reading feel like a fresh adventure."—Anthony V. Capildeo

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"Rebecca’s poems come from a place of excitement. Not the peppy, enthusiastic kind. I mean exciting at an atomic level, electrons vibrating and knocking. Her poems often have to stop themselves, ‘hey’ or ‘no way’, ‘are you kidding me’. The poem is something hotwired, hijacked, it’s kind of like an action movie but the action is thought and feeling. As a reader you duck and cover and go along with it. You have to let yourself lose your sense of location at times and keep up but that’s just where the poems are, as moving objects. I like to focus on that feeling of movement, or of being moved when reading them, and in doing so I find I am moved, I find the poems moving." —Jack Underwood