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Title: |
The Farewell Tourist |
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| By (author): |
Alison Glenny |
| ISBN10-13: |
1988531292 : 9781988531298 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
230x150mm |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Weight: |
.160 Kg. |
| Published: |
Otago University Press (NZ) - August 2018 |
| List Price: |
14.00 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry by individual poets |
| Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In The Magnetic Process sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ships. Their scientific instruments and observations measure a fragmented and uncertain space where conventional perspectives are violated. In a series of histories of the Atmosphere, of the Honeymoon footnotes reference vanished texts. By turns mysterious, ominous and evocative, they represent connections to an obscured narrative of disintegration and icy melancholy. |
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Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2017
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"There is an elegance and poise and care in the language of these poems, an unobtrusive mastery and ease in their cadences and rhythms. Here is writing so close to the sound of how our speech usually arranges itself, and yet set with a hard delicacy that makes it quite something else – memorable, direct, focused to the movement of how the poems present both thought and feeling." - Bill Manhire, judge of the 2018 Kathleen Grattan Award, has written
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