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The Children of Babylon single work   poetry   "In pain and leafy jungle blood"
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 The Children of Babylon
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Evening at Murunna Point Ian McFarlane , Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2001 Z817856 2001 selected work poetry short story prose essay autobiography column Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2001 pg. 153-154
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Shapes of Light : Rediscovering Poetry in a Post-poetic Age Ian McFarlane , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2014 7134176 2014 selected work poetry

    'Why has poetry fallen so sadly by the literary wayside of our hectic digital age? An age, if ever there was one, needing the kind of humanising empathy that readable (and quotable) poetry can provide. One of the central problems facing poetry today is that we seem to have forgotten (in some cases, perhaps deliberately) its link to the emotional cadence of music, and when that link is broken the light fails. These 'shapes of light' seek rediscovery, and their only claim is one of honesty - emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2014
    pg. 85-86
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