Barbie Robinson is a Canberra Australia-based arts advocate, artist and poet whose practice encompasses writing, photography, design, event management, radio presentation/production and arts marketing. That Looks on Tempests – Thoughts on the nature of love is her third solo book of poetry and the first to be published by For Pity Sake. The work is highly personal, created as part of Barbie’s ‘Gratitude Project’ after a life-saving stem cell transplant.

«People, Places and Paradoxes. 'That Looks on Tempests – Thoughts on the nature of love' is a sensitive, evocative collection. A wry interrogation of the ambiguity inherent in the poet’s embrace of a new home and the courage it takes to love, Barbie Robinson’s third book of poetry contains a playfulness to delight the reader along with sudden insights into the nature of relationships.

Here we delve into the richness of a migrant’s experience, the lands inhabited and the creatures, human and otherwise, who reside forever in her soul.»

- Sara Dowse, author of As the Lonely Fly