No particular place to go Contributor(s): Duggan, Laurie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848615213 ISBN-13: 9781848615212 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Australian & Oceanian |
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.31 lbs) 102 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Sceptical as I am about anti-poetry, of which there is a lot around and which can assume many different forms, the fully formed poems are not the only writing I can value in a book like this. There is too much wit, absurdity, and sheer verbal craft to be ignored." --Peter Riley "We've all seen how, after a night of drones, an experimental poet comes out to read, wielding the vernacular, and the room lights up. There's laughter, joy, play, confusion, a rmation, all the things that make poetry what it is. This is why poets in the generation including Duggan, Pam Brown and Ken Bolton are so accessible to readers and listeners, because of their interest in the page-as-field (perhaps an 'Olsonesque' sense), and the everyday vernacular. The only reason Conventional Verse Culture still claims to own the (ever-elusive) 'average reader' is because of the structures and frameworks in place that tell people they do. This is not because people on the street speak like CVC." --A J Carruthers
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Contributor Bio(s): Duggan, Laurie: - Laurie Duggan moved from Australia to Faversham, Kent, in 2006. His most recent books are Allotments (Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2014) and a reissue of his first two books as East and Under the Weather (Sydney: Puncher & Wattman, 2014). |