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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Press Release
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'Press Release is Lisa Gorton's first book of poems. At its centre is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria in the last years of World War II. Using elegies, dramatic monologues, portrait poems and lyrics, it explores the experience of first settlement in a meditation on ambition, patience and waste. Other poems are set in cities and in the future.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my grandparents.

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Works about this Work

'Bypassed Years; : TimeSpace and the Stasis in Gorton's 'Press Release' Sequences Cassandra Atherton , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Feeding the Ghost : 1 : Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry 2018; (p. 16-35)

'The compression of time and space, coined "TimeSpace" by Wallerstein' (1991) in his modern world-systems analysis, aims to eliminate dualisms and highlight the interdependency or indissolubility of time and space in human geography. Buildingon Fernand Braudel's (1980) identification of three social times, Wallerstein argues, "time and space are not two separate categories but one, which I shall call TimeSpace" (139). Indeed, moving from Structural TimeSpace to a melding of geographical concepts and metaphors with conceptualisations of time play, Jon May and Nigel Thrift suggest that removing the space or hyphen between these two words is an attempt to eliminate any possible prioritization of one over the other, to focus instead on the ways in which "time and space are inextricably interwoven" (2). Their interdisciplinary edited collection of essays, TimeSpace Geographies of Temporality (2001), highlights the relevance of TimeSpace to Geography, (2001)., Sociology Gender Studies, International Studies and English Literature (2). This essay is an analysis of the relevance of TimeSpace to Poetry specifically an examination of imaginative geographies in Gorton's poetry...' (Introduction)
 

Garner Gratified over Gong as Zinc Paved with Literary Gold Jason Steger , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 2 September 2008; (p. 4)
Lines That Leap Like A Kangaroo Lyn McCredden , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 July 2008; (p. 30)

— Review of Anonymous Premonition Yvette Holt , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide Petra White , 2007 selected work poetry ; Press Release Lisa Gorton , 2007 selected work poetry
Mallee-Rooted Poetry and Grounded Clouds Simon Caterson , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 2008; (p. 27)
Hovering Between Literal and Abstract Visions Geoff Page , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 June 2008; (p. 19)

— Review of Press Release Lisa Gorton , 2007 selected work poetry
Travelling through Light Paul Hetherington , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 298 2008; (p. 52)

— Review of Press Release Lisa Gorton , 2007 selected work poetry
Elemental Exhalations Jaya Savige , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 3 no. 2 2008; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Event : Poems Judith Bishop , 2007 selected work poetry ; Press Release Lisa Gorton , 2007 selected work poetry ; An Illustrated History of Dairies Joanne Burns , 2007 selected work poetry ; Scar Revision Tracy Ryan , 2008 selected work poetry
Hovering Between Literal and Abstract Visions Geoff Page , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 June 2008; (p. 19)

— Review of Press Release Lisa Gorton , 2007 selected work poetry
Lines That Leap Like A Kangaroo Lyn McCredden , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 July 2008; (p. 30)

— Review of Anonymous Premonition Yvette Holt , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide Petra White , 2007 selected work poetry ; Press Release Lisa Gorton , 2007 selected work poetry
Mallee-Rooted Poetry and Grounded Clouds Simon Caterson , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 2008; (p. 27)
Garner Gratified over Gong as Zinc Paved with Literary Gold Jason Steger , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 2 September 2008; (p. 4)
'Bypassed Years; : TimeSpace and the Stasis in Gorton's 'Press Release' Sequences Cassandra Atherton , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Feeding the Ghost : 1 : Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry 2018; (p. 16-35)

'The compression of time and space, coined "TimeSpace" by Wallerstein' (1991) in his modern world-systems analysis, aims to eliminate dualisms and highlight the interdependency or indissolubility of time and space in human geography. Buildingon Fernand Braudel's (1980) identification of three social times, Wallerstein argues, "time and space are not two separate categories but one, which I shall call TimeSpace" (139). Indeed, moving from Structural TimeSpace to a melding of geographical concepts and metaphors with conceptualisations of time play, Jon May and Nigel Thrift suggest that removing the space or hyphen between these two words is an attempt to eliminate any possible prioritization of one over the other, to focus instead on the ways in which "time and space are inextricably interwoven" (2). Their interdisciplinary edited collection of essays, TimeSpace Geographies of Temporality (2001), highlights the relevance of TimeSpace to Geography, (2001)., Sociology Gender Studies, International Studies and English Literature (2). This essay is an analysis of the relevance of TimeSpace to Poetry specifically an examination of imaginative geographies in Gorton's poetry...' (Introduction)
 

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