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Description

Most of the poems in this book were included in the poetry section of my PhD in Creative Writing in 2006 under the title of “Land Whisperings: a Poetics of Newplace and Birthplace”. A theme of the thesis was ‘palimpsest’ the rendering of a new work over the top of an older one. Some of the poems therefore take skeletal forms from well-known British and Australian poems yet are new poems created upon the old. The poems also evoke my memories and experiences of my homeland, particularly the Wheatbelt of Western Australia but also landscapes of Italy and China in particular in which I have spent much time over the years.[31 poems]

ISBN

9780992435455

Publication Date

10-2014

Publisher

International Centre for Landscape and Language Press, Edith Cowan University

City

Perth, Western Australia

School

School of Communications and Arts

Keywords

[ECUPubs], Poetry

Disciplines

Poetry

Comments

First published in 2014 by the International Centre for Landscape and Language Press, Edith Cowan Univesity. Edited with Introduction by Shane McCauley

Land whisperings: Poems and palimpsests

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