| Latecomers Contributor(s): Savige, Jaya (Author) |
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ISBN: 0702235199 ISBN-13: 9780702235191 Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia) OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: 821.4 |
| LCCN: 2006278660 |
| Physical Information: 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the prestigious Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Jaya Savige s latecomers is a first collection of poems by one of Australia s most exciting young poets. Lively, playful, and always intelligent, Savige s poems show an awareness of place, of the inescapability of history, and a personal commitment to the precision of language. The poems in latecomers go beyond what we take for granted these days in a first collection: refinement of language and cadence, allusiveness, wit. Moving easily through abstract wonders and the streets of the inner city, they return for nourishment to family and the Island Bribie, its fishing-life and beaches as a test always of what is native and endures DAVID MALOUF" |