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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Babel Fish
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'Jillian Pattinson's first full-length book of poetry includes portrait, lyrical, narrative and ekphrastic poems in free verse and novel forms. It won the 2010 Alec Bolton Prize for an unpublished manuscript. "The enigmatic vortex of the gyre, performing a fine balance between order and disorder, becomes the template for Jillian Pattinson's poetry. Even her lists work as centrifuges, spinning us out into what she calls 'the unmade world'. Her poetry will bring you into a world suspended in its fall, its gyre, somewhere between chaos and beauty. This kind of poetry is addictive to the ear and the mind. I know of nothing else quite like the way Pattinson's poetry can speak of the questions, silences, birds, deaths, and the strangely shifting names of things in the world. Like a journal of half-remembered dreams, with a Borgesian minor magic, sharing the insight of the blind with an uncluttered vision, this poetry does new things with the psyche, the heart, and with the mind." -Kevin Brophy' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2014 .
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      Extent: 75p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st July 2014
      ISBN: 9781922186690

Works about this Work

Review Short : Judith Crispin’s The Myrhh-Bearers and Jillian Pattinson’s Babel Fish Ivy Ireland , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;

— Review of The Myrrh-Bearers Judith Nangala Crispin , 2015 selected work poetry ; Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry
Geoff Page Reviews 'Babel Fish' by Jillian Pattinson Geoff Page , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 376 2015; (p. 57)

— Review of Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry
Inexplicable Angles : Charlotte Guest Reviews ‘Babel Fish’ by Jillian Pattinson Charlotte Guest , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 14 2015;

— Review of Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry
Human Moments at the Centre Aidan Coleman , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 July 2015; (p. 22)

— Review of Embracing the Razor John Upton , 2015 selected work poetry ; Penelope’s Chairs Elizabeth Lawson , 2014 selected work poetry ; Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry ; Cut a Long Story Short Peter Lach-Newinsky , 2015 single work autobiography
John Hawke : Aurelia; Jillian Pattinson : Babel Fish Martin Duwell , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 10 no. 2015;

— Review of Aurelia John Hawke , 2015 selected work poetry ; Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry
John Hawke : Aurelia; Jillian Pattinson : Babel Fish Martin Duwell , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 10 no. 2015;

— Review of Aurelia John Hawke , 2015 selected work poetry ; Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry
Human Moments at the Centre Aidan Coleman , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 July 2015; (p. 22)

— Review of Embracing the Razor John Upton , 2015 selected work poetry ; Penelope’s Chairs Elizabeth Lawson , 2014 selected work poetry ; Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry ; Cut a Long Story Short Peter Lach-Newinsky , 2015 single work autobiography
Inexplicable Angles : Charlotte Guest Reviews ‘Babel Fish’ by Jillian Pattinson Charlotte Guest , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 14 2015;

— Review of Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry
Geoff Page Reviews 'Babel Fish' by Jillian Pattinson Geoff Page , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 376 2015; (p. 57)

— Review of Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry
Review Short : Judith Crispin’s The Myrhh-Bearers and Jillian Pattinson’s Babel Fish Ivy Ireland , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;

— Review of The Myrrh-Bearers Judith Nangala Crispin , 2015 selected work poetry ; Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 2014 selected work poetry

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