The Kangaroo Farm first appeared in Australia in 1997 and confirmed
Martin Harrison's (1949-2014) reputation as one of Australia's
finest poets. His poems of landscape and nature (and above all,
Australian nature, in all its weird glory) offer the reader
glimpses of an underlying meaning that mere tourism never can
offer: "calm, intelligent, long-lined verse letters that engagingly
bring us to a world where the ‘sea-dusks are sea-dusks flowing
far inland’", as Nigel Wheale pout it when reviewing the first
edition for the London Review of Books. “Harrison should be read
as substantial Australian poet. His poetry is something new,
something that opens up what poetry can be.” —Petra White,
Cordite Poetry Review “This notion of work runs throughout
Harrison’s poetry. There is a sense that each poem is a hard-won
moment of perception even while offering to the reader an enviable
translucence, a clear vision of the world in its contingency and
temporal flux. At the heart of these profound and ever-meticulously
crafted poems, this long meditation into the mechanics of
conception and perception, is the warmth and flesh of the
complexity of life and being plainly spoken.” —Michael Brennan
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Shearsman Library, 15 |
Release date: |
May 2020 |
Authors: |
Martin Harrison
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
82 |
Edition: |
2nd edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-701-8 |
Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-84861-701-1 |
Barcode: |
9781848617018 |
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