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'John Mateer’s previous poetry book Southern Barbarians traced the influence of the Portuguese empire in the Indian Ocean – it was shortlisted for the PM’s Award for Poetry and the NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Literary Awards. Unbelievers, or The Moor takes this exploration one step further, to recover its Arabic and Islamic origins in Al-Andalus, the Moorish state which occupied much of present-day Spain and Portugal from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. A seat of learning and culture, which combined Muslim, Christian and Jewish influences, it provides a model for Mateer’s own mixed background as a South African Australian, and for his nomadic identity as a poet. The collection is much concerned with influential but invisible histories; with the poem as a moment of connection between languages and cultures, so that it seems already to exist in translation; with doubles and hauntings, friends in far places, and above all, what Mateer calls ‘the irony of Elsewhere’.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    Half of man is his tongue, and half his heart.

    The Poem of Zuhayr, 6th Century AD

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2013 .
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      Image courtesy of Giramondo Press
      Extent: 128p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 October 2013
      ISBN: 9781922146502
      Series: y separately published work icon Giramondo Poets Giramondo Publishing (publisher), Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2006- Z1440074 2006 series - publisher
    • Bristol,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Shearsman Books ,
      2013 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 168p.
      ISBN: 9781848612815

Works about this Work

Infidel Poetics : A Review of John Mateer’s ‘Unbelievers’ Bonny Cassidy , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Jacket2 2015;

— Review of Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
John Mateer, Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' Martin Langford , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 251-257)

— Review of Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
Lucy Van Reviews John Mateer Lucy Van , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 47.0 2014;

— Review of Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry ; Emptiness : Asian Poems 1998-2012 John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
Imaginings Connect to the Wider World Stuart Cooke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 July 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of Towns in the Great Desert Peter Boyle , 2012 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry John Hawke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)

— Review of Threefer Ken Bolton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert Peter Boyle , 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems John Kinsella , 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing Kathryn Lomer , 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark Rose Lucas , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters Kate Middleton , 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems Geoff Page , 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed Tracy Ryan , 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen Corey Wakeling , 2013 selected work poetry
Dissolution and Reclamation Paul Hetherington , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , April 2014;

— Review of Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry John Hawke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)

— Review of Threefer Ken Bolton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert Peter Boyle , 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems John Kinsella , 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing Kathryn Lomer , 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark Rose Lucas , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters Kate Middleton , 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems Geoff Page , 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed Tracy Ryan , 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen Corey Wakeling , 2013 selected work poetry
Imaginings Connect to the Wider World Stuart Cooke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 July 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of Towns in the Great Desert Peter Boyle , 2012 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
Lucy Van Reviews John Mateer Lucy Van , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 47.0 2014;

— Review of Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry ; Emptiness : Asian Poems 1998-2012 John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
John Mateer, Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' Martin Langford , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 251-257)

— Review of Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry
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