Fourteen Ways of Looking

Fourteen Ways of Looking is a hybrid memoir in the form of a prose poem. When Erin Vincent was fourteen both of her parents were killed in a road accident in Western Sydney. Almost forty years later the number 14 began haunting Erin, appearing everywhere - in the books she was reading, in films, TV shows, in the news... Fourteen. 14. This felt like a sign, so Erin embarked on a quest to seek out instances of fourteen throughout history. To her surprise, much of what she found related to her life at fourteen, so she began writing it all down. The result, Fourteen Ways of Looking, is written in fragments that looks at the year Erin's parents died. It is also the story of a writer reflecting on her life and her grief and commenting on the writing process as it progresses.