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Title: | The Wear of My Face | ||
| By (author): | Lizz Murphy | |||
| ISBN10-13: | 1925950344 : 9781925950342 | |||
| Format: | Paperback | |||
| Size: | 216x140x80mm | |||
| Pages: | 112 | |||
| Weight: | .140 Kg. | |||
| Published: | Spinifex Press - September 2021 | |||
| List Price: | 13.95 Pounds Sterling | |||
| Availability: | In Stock Qty Available: 15 | |||
| Subjects: | Poetry : Poetry by individual poets | |||
| The Wear of My Face is an assemblage of passing lives and landscapes, fractured worlds and realities. There is splintered text and image, memory and dream, newscast and conversation. Women wicker first light, old men make things that glow, poets are standing stones, frontlines merge with tourist lines. Lizz Murphy weaves these elements into the strangeness of suburbia, the intensity of waiting rooms, bush stillness, and hopes for a leap of faith as at times she leaves a poem as fragmented as a hectic day or a bombed street. What may sometimes seem like misdemeanours of the mind, to Lizz they are simply the distractions and disturbances of daily life somewhere. There is a rehomed greyhound, a breezy scientist, ancient malleefowl, beige union reps and people in all their conundrums. You might travel on a seagullâ s wing or wing through the aerosphere. | ||||
| Table of Contents: | ||||
the architecture of pear a woman’s work some things are orange stray birds 1–10 the wear of my face you can be cruel to a bee girl in a park how’s the weather in binalong? neighbours strangelands what is he making in there preambles another day exodus ‘war zone tours’ knots please leave the door open bat greyhounds make great pets we tried to tell him red shock jocks his zombies cross my hand like i suffer not the work of fern this is what we do lines all i could see right of way bag (more ducks) happy days felt dark space scintillate ** forecast unlike a black cat catchcry takings threats locks cracks prey penalty ** rips brown goshawk mourning conundrums the refuge of art points signals first things first wheelbarrow hedge who’s been eating the moon back to basics old spice lost property who will bury the pensioners the power of prayer what does it take to make white bleached prayer: quick & dirty arrivals bees diapause summer you don’t pay for any fancy overheads protests nobody’s child kids half price syria’s children blood moon acknowledgements |
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| Reviews: | ||||
| "The Wear of My Face is an uncanny and politically powerful collection. It traverses ‘strangelands’ that thrum with colour. Its fragments are suspended in a tender tension, much like the conundrums of the human world it explores." —Sarah St Vincent Welch, writer and image maker | ||||
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