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Thick Pickings
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2023;
— Review of Bees Do Bother 2021 selected work poetry'The title of Ann Vickery’s latest book of poems, Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist’s Care Pack, is longer, more complex, and more avowedly academic than is conventional. A number of questions might be asked of it: are the bees metaphorical, being the most basic. In other words, are the bees human? That what ‘bees do [is] bother’ does not clarify, but rather thickens, the meaning of the first part of the title. Bothering seems like a human activity, and suggests, both semantically and sonically, the notion of a ‘bee in a bonnet’ (‘Bad Hat’): but while having a bee in your bonnet is not a passive image exactly, it does suggest being subject to the bee, of the bothering being done to the one with the bonnet, as opposed to being the bee that is doing the bothering.'(Introduction)
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Alexis Late Reviews Bees Do Bother : An Antagonist’s Care Pack by Ann Vickery
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
— Review of Bees Do Bother 2021 selected work poetry -
No Time Limits : Three New Poetry Collections
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 437 2021; (p. 58-59)
— Review of How to Make a Basket 2021 selected work poetry ; Bees Do Bother 2021 selected work poetry ; The Open 2021 selected work poetry'Good poetry uncovers the secret in the manifest, and the manifest in the secret. Three new collections throw this paradox into vibrant, unsettling relief. Each book deserves a broad readership. Each beats back the lethargic thinking that has invaded society under the cover of the pandemic.' (Introduction)
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No Time Limits : Three New Poetry Collections
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 437 2021; (p. 58-59)
— Review of How to Make a Basket 2021 selected work poetry ; Bees Do Bother 2021 selected work poetry ; The Open 2021 selected work poetry'Good poetry uncovers the secret in the manifest, and the manifest in the secret. Three new collections throw this paradox into vibrant, unsettling relief. Each book deserves a broad readership. Each beats back the lethargic thinking that has invaded society under the cover of the pandemic.' (Introduction)
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Alexis Late Reviews Bees Do Bother : An Antagonist’s Care Pack by Ann Vickery
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
— Review of Bees Do Bother 2021 selected work poetry -
Thick Pickings
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2023;
— Review of Bees Do Bother 2021 selected work poetry'The title of Ann Vickery’s latest book of poems, Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist’s Care Pack, is longer, more complex, and more avowedly academic than is conventional. A number of questions might be asked of it: are the bees metaphorical, being the most basic. In other words, are the bees human? That what ‘bees do [is] bother’ does not clarify, but rather thickens, the meaning of the first part of the title. Bothering seems like a human activity, and suggests, both semantically and sonically, the notion of a ‘bee in a bonnet’ (‘Bad Hat’): but while having a bee in your bonnet is not a passive image exactly, it does suggest being subject to the bee, of the bothering being done to the one with the bonnet, as opposed to being the bee that is doing the bothering.'(Introduction)
Awards
- 2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- 2019 shortlisted Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest as 'The Antagonist's Care Pack'.