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'What does it take to hold the sky in place?
The moving raft of sky a dark shadow of itself.
The miracle of it. All of us holding strings.
'From the Afterword:
'‘Some Sketchy Notes on Matter came together slowly around preoccupations of safety and shelter at an individual, societal and global level. I also wanted to look at the tensions between digital and analogue reality, between the city and a natural world that exists without us, strange, compelling and precarious. At its worst these tensions become an imbalance, a violence, threatening not only the individual body but the entire planet.’' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Thriveni C Mysore Reviews Some Sketchy Notes on Matter by Angela Gardner
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , November 2020;
— Review of Some Sketchy Notes on Matter 2020 selected work poetry -
Numinous Wellings : Three New Poetry Volumes
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;
— Review of Cadaver Dog 2020 single work novel ; Thorn 2020 selected work poetry ; Some Sketchy Notes on Matter 2020 selected work poetry'In 1795, Friedrich Schiller wrote: ‘So long as we were mere children of nature, we were both happy and perfect; we have become free, and have lost both.’ For Schiller, it was the poet’s task to ‘lead mankind … onward’ to a reunification with nature, and thereby with the self. Central to Romantic thought, reimaginings like Schiller’s of Christian allegory, in which (European) humans’ division from a utopian natural world suggests the biblical fall, strike a chord in our own time of unfolding environmental catastrophe. Against such an unfolding, three new Australian books of poetry explore the contemporary relationship of subject to place.' (Introduction)
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Numinous Wellings : Three New Poetry Volumes
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;
— Review of Cadaver Dog 2020 single work novel ; Thorn 2020 selected work poetry ; Some Sketchy Notes on Matter 2020 selected work poetry'In 1795, Friedrich Schiller wrote: ‘So long as we were mere children of nature, we were both happy and perfect; we have become free, and have lost both.’ For Schiller, it was the poet’s task to ‘lead mankind … onward’ to a reunification with nature, and thereby with the self. Central to Romantic thought, reimaginings like Schiller’s of Christian allegory, in which (European) humans’ division from a utopian natural world suggests the biblical fall, strike a chord in our own time of unfolding environmental catastrophe. Against such an unfolding, three new Australian books of poetry explore the contemporary relationship of subject to place.' (Introduction)
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Thriveni C Mysore Reviews Some Sketchy Notes on Matter by Angela Gardner
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , November 2020;
— Review of Some Sketchy Notes on Matter 2020 selected work poetry
Awards
- 2018 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
