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Title: |
Too Close for Comfort |
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| By (author): |
Pip Smith |
| ISBN10-13: |
1921364440 : 9781921364440 |
| Illustrations: |
5 illus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
70 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Darlington Press - September 2013 |
| List Price: |
16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry |
| Pip Smith's Too Close for Comfort, is the inaugural winner of the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest, a biennial prize for a book of poetry by an Australian female poet which deals in some way with Australian culture. This award (and future awards) has been made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of Helen Anne Bell, a former student at the University of Sydney. The inaugural award in 2013 drew a highly competitive field of entries, but the judges, Joanne Burns, Jill Jones and myself, felt that Pip Smith's poems were the ones which engaged most robustly and imaginatively with Australian life, concerns, and culture in the 21st century. From the Foreword by Judith Beveridge. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Foreword: Happy Christmas! (don't get tasered); Scrooge; This season; Go home Australia your drunk!!; Cartography; Midnight Mass; Etymology; Now that's cricket; Too close for comfort; Broken train lines; Comb jelly; Marrickville cats; How to reason with snakes; An ode to the stupidity of sheep; The little things; Plum tree; Biology; Ghosts make good material; The red disk; Bikies; Watertight; Keeping it real with Kendrick Lamar; On the 36th floor; For Tim; Punch lines; Arrogant ghost; Death metal; Sleeper train; HOWL, for Allen Ginsberg; Acknowledgements. |
| Reviews: |
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"Smith's voice is anything but timid, and it's when she modulates 'difficult' with a more restrained-but-fluent perspicacity that the collection really starts to build its force." -- Antonia Pont -- Cordite Poetry Review
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