Becoming the Sea - Immanuel Suttner

Poetry collection by Immanuel Suttner weaving biography, history, identity, and the metaphysical through the fabric of everyday life. With a gift for elevating life’s small moments into something luminous, Suttner blends humanity, feeling, and irony. His poems transform the ordinary into the magical, inviting readers to find depth, humour, and meaning in the seemingly trivial.

About the author:

Immanuel Suttner, born in Johannesburg, lived in Israel before settling in Sydney in 2008. Educated in English and Hebrew literature and musicology, he has authored television scripts, books, and poetry widely published internationally. His work, influenced by Robert Frost, Yehuda Amichai, and others, blends confessional, polemical, and devotional voices. Fluent in Hebrew and English, Suttner often engages Jewish texts, reinterpreting tradition while exploring contemporary Jewish experience and universal themes.