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'The poems in In the Photograph unfold in domestic and suburban settings. They capture the exact moment of writing: how, from it, possibilities branch out into observation, memory, word play, analogy, fantasy, other artworks and other art forms. Cinema, photography, theatre, painting and music all move freely in and out of the poem’s frame.
'The writing revels in humour and narrative surprise: twists in syntax, jump cuts in time, jump cuts from one category of experience into another. In the Photograph is intimate, familial, often moving; it is also sparklingly clever and alert to the imaginative possibilities that can open out from the minutiae of days.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: The rest stops can be seen in the shifts that take place between the persona of the creator and the persona of the observer—the shifts take place before our eyes without revealing themselves, as if gauze had been spun especially for the purpose; and a curtain falls slyly between the persona of the person and the persona that is now accepted. We travel back to the mountain top and the valley with the shifting of spatial contacts. - Barbara Guest, 'Shifting Persona', Forces of Imagination
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Snap! Making the Familiar Truly Strange
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 58)
— Review of In the Photograph 2023 selected work poetry'For a long time, Australia has had a conservative poetry culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when modernist poets in Europe, Asia, America, and – somewhat belatedly – the United Kingdom revolutionised international literature, Australian poets continued writing mainly conventional verse.' (Introduction)
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Snap! Making the Familiar Truly Strange
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 58)
— Review of In the Photograph 2023 selected work poetry'For a long time, Australia has had a conservative poetry culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when modernist poets in Europe, Asia, America, and – somewhat belatedly – the United Kingdom revolutionised international literature, Australian poets continued writing mainly conventional verse.' (Introduction)
