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'Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literature Award, the richest literary prize in Australia Shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry Prize Drones and Phantoms is a powerful successor to Maiden's prize-winning collection Liquid Nitrogen, and again features her unique interweaving of the personal and the political, in the use of intimate and public poetic modes within each poem and within the collection as a whole. The poems are in fact conversations, not only between the poet and the reader, but between historical and political figures, such as Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, Tanya Pliberesek and Jane Austen, Mandela and Obama, Queen Victoria and Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who come to life in Maiden's poems to discuss their anxieties and ethical insecurities. There are also poems on the Cypriot financial crisis, Jimmy Hoffa, Judith Wright, Julia Gillard, the Copenhagen giraffe killing and Russian power in the Crimea. Maiden is unique both for the interrogative power of her poems, and the sense of vulnerability they express, in their subjects, and in the poet herself.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Katharine
Contents
- Diary Poem: Uses of Live Oddsi"When I was young, I wrote that poor men", single work poetry (p. 1-2)
- Offshorei"Sappho did call", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Diary Poem : Uses of Cosinessi"Emboldened by sharing, briefly, the same", single work poetry (p. 4-5)
- The Day of Atonementi"Out in the bush in the night, alive", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Drones and Phantomsi"Gillard said her hair would look", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Diary Poem Uses of Ethiopiai"This art like doves:", single work poetry (p. 8-10)
- Digging for Hoffai"The FBI gave up again,", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Hilary and Eleanor 10: The Coppicei"Hilary Clinton woke up on Wimbledon Common", single work poetry (p. 12-16)
- 'So That's Who Those Motorbikes Were'i"Mother Teresa woke up near Princess Diana", single work poetry (p. 17-19)
- 'I've done this wrongly before'i"All is as it should be in winter", single work poetry (p. 20)
- The Reflectioni"Kevin Rudd woke up on a plane from New Guinea.", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Victoria and Tony 1: A Useful Fani"Queen Victoria woke up nears the embers", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- Victoria and Tony 2: The Backburni"Queen Victoria woke up at another backburn, still", single work poetry (p. 24-25)
- Victoria and Tony 3: Woods and Feathersi"Queen Victoria woke up in Port Moresby", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Victoria and Tony 4 : The Minimal Monarchi"Tony Abbott woke up but Queen", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Diary Poem: Uses of Judith Wrighti"After a couple of reviewers who decided", single work poetry (p. 29-31)
- The Sweet Shop Gonei"At first", single work poetry (p. 32-33)
- Diary Poem: Uses of Frank O'Harai"Years ago when John Forbes praised", single work poetry (p. 34-36)
- Getting Anne Backi"Lucy Maud Montgomery woke up", single work poetry (p. 37-40)
- George Jeffreys 15: The Fourth Terracei"George Jeffreys woke up in hyper Australia,", single work poetry (p. 41-44)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Jennifer Maiden, Drones and Phantoms
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 75 no. 2 2016;
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A Discursive Poetics : Caitlin Maling Reviews ‘Drones and Phantoms’ by Jennifer Maiden
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;
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Melinda Bufton Reviews Drones and Phantoms by Jennifer Maiden
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;
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Poetry Book Review : Drones and Phantoms by Jennifer Maiden
2015
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog
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Toby Fitch Reviews 'Drones and Phantoms' by Jennifer Maiden
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;
— Review of Drones and Phantoms 2014 selected work poetry
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The Poetic Power That Lurks in an Argument
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 November 2014; (p. 31) The Age , 1 November 2014; (p. 27)
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David McCooey Reviews Jennifer Maiden
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 48.1 2014;
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Australian Poetry
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 January 2015; (p. 19)
— Review of Drones and Phantoms 2014 selected work poetry ; Brush 2014 selected work poetry ; Curio 2014 selected work poetry ; A Hunger : With the Simplified World and the Incoming Tide 2014 selected work poetry -
Drones and Phantoms : Siobhan Hodge Reviews Jennifer Maiden
2014
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— Appears in: Writ Poetry Review , December no. 2 2014;
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In Proportion
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 12 2015;
— Review of Drones and Phantoms 2014 selected work poetry
Awards
- 2015 winner ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal