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There Is a Shipwreck at the Base of Your Neck single work   poetry   "When I press my lips to the centre of your brow there is a garden there"
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 There Is a Shipwreck at the Base of Your Neck
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 62 no. 1 2003 Z1017958 2003 periodical issue Meanjin Reads Their Lips 2003 pg. 206
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    y separately published work icon A Bud Claire Gaskin , Elwood : John Leonard Press , 2006 Z1323896 2006 selected work poetry

    'These poems are spare, in the tradition of imagism, from haiku through to surrealism and since; and they are oblique, worked between logic and illogic.

    'The voice, among this, is lucid to hear. It is playful and wise; its reflections take the daily things and emotions, with a background of rural Victoria in some of the imagery; and its rhythms feel fresh to a syllable.

    'There is no modish nervousness towards language's impotence. Claire Gaskin, in a style that she formed by the mid-eighties, keeps a modernist confidence in expressiveness. The poems here have been matured from two to twenty years, with an artist's instinct not to hurry. The words seem incised on the page for a long term.

    'A bud was shortlisted for the John Bray Prize in the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.' (Publication summary)

         Elwood : John Leonard Press , 2006     pg. 65
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