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'Undercoat is a collection of vivid ekphrastic poems from an established Australian poet. In lively dialogue with referenced works of visual art, the book is organised into three sections: 'Hill End Poems', which respond to a variety of paintings from the Hill End artists' colony in New South Wales; 'Poems on Canvas' which engage with different visual media from Australia and internationally; and 'The Human Face' which, like the portraits it focuses on, examines this fundamental marker of humanness and its various representations. This is a well-crafted, insightful and often playful exploration of the ways in which both poetic and visual languages might intersect to create exciting new reading experiences.'
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Michael J. Roach Reviews Undercoat
2022
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review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 198-203)
— Review of Undercoat : Poems about Paintings 2022 selected work poetry -
Map Without Scale
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Undercoat : Poems about Paintings 2022 selected work poetry 'Undercoat by Mark O’Flynn is billed as a book of ekphrastic ‘poems about paintings’ but is as much a book of poems about painters and the process of painting and viewing. For beyond a mere depiction of the paintings that inspired them, these poems offer a beguiling presentation of frames-within-frames and perspectives that gesture to what is out of sight, beyond the temporal and spatial boundaries of the frame.' (Introduction)
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Map Without Scale
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Undercoat : Poems about Paintings 2022 selected work poetry 'Undercoat by Mark O’Flynn is billed as a book of ekphrastic ‘poems about paintings’ but is as much a book of poems about painters and the process of painting and viewing. For beyond a mere depiction of the paintings that inspired them, these poems offer a beguiling presentation of frames-within-frames and perspectives that gesture to what is out of sight, beyond the temporal and spatial boundaries of the frame.' (Introduction) -
Michael J. Roach Reviews Undercoat
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 198-203)
— Review of Undercoat : Poems about Paintings 2022 selected work poetry
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