Lyre

Lyre

Cooke, Stuart

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Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

Lyre is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life - animal, plant and otherwise - have their own modes of expression, each of which can each be translated into a different kind of poetry. Ranging across Australasian oceans, coastlines, rainforests, savannahs and deserts, and similarly wide-ranging in its approach to form and lineation, Lyre asks what happens when poems make contact with non-human worlds; in so doing, it welcomes whole new worlds to poetry.

Inspired in part by books like Les Murray’s Translations from the Natural World and Barry Hill & John Wolseley’s Lines for Birds, Lyre is the result of many years of research into a selection of Australasian flora, fauna and landforms. The collection asks what happens to poetry when it encounters more-than human life.

Author:   Cooke, Stuart
Publisher:   UWA Publishing
ISBN:  

9781760800345


Pages:   259
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Bind Format:   Paperback
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Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

Lyre is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life - animal, plant and otherwise - have their own modes of expression, each of which can each be translated into a different kind of poetry. Ranging across Australasian oceans, coastlines, rainforests, savannahs and deserts, and similarly wide-ranging in its approach to form and lineation, Lyre asks what happens when poems make contact with non-human worlds; in so doing, it welcomes whole new worlds to poetry.

Inspired in part by books like Les Murray’s Translations from the Natural World and Barry Hill & John Wolseley’s Lines for Birds, Lyre is the result of many years of research into a selection of Australasian flora, fauna and landforms. The collection asks what happens to poetry when it encounters more-than human life.

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Author:   Cooke, Stuart
Publisher:   UWA Publishing
ISBN:  

9781760800345


Pages:   259
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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