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The Best Australian Poems 2017
Sarah Holland-Batt
(editor),
Carlton
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Black Inc.
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2017
11466558
2017
anthology
poetry
'Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm again as editor of this year’s Best Australian Poems. ' (Publication summary)
Carlton : Black Inc. , 2017 pg. 126
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The Best Australian Poems 2017
Sarah Holland-Batt
(editor),
Carlton
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Black Inc.
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2017
11466558
2017
anthology
poetry
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Island
no.
149
2017
11563457
2017
periodical issue
'Eighteen months ago, at the fag end of a mild New South Wales winter, I moved with my family from the Blue Mountains outside Sydney to South America : Chile first, then Argentina, and ultimately Easter Island, to research a book about my family. They were Scottish merchants, those forbears, Wee Free Protestants with a Bible in one hand and an account ledger in the other. Who set up business in Valparaiso, Chile, in the mid-nineteenth century and then went about becoming rich.' (Editorial)
2017 pg. 25
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Island
no.
149
2017
11563457
2017
periodical issue
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Wildlife of Berlin
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
,
2018
12947828
2018
selected work
poetry
'Neilsen’s intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious and unerringly wry, these poems offer us forensically clear-eyed perspectives on subjects ranging from environmental degradation and the impending collapse of fragile ecosystems in the anthropocene, to unconventional and irreverent portraits of figures drawn from literature and politics and beyond. Neilsen’s poems are miraculously both deeply ethical and deeply comic; they surprise and delight with the irreverence of their critiques, while always keeping an eye on the tragic consequences of human folly. Above all, they ask us to sit still, to pay attention, to re-examine our basic precepts with equal measures of reason, wit, imagination and empathy. Wildlife of Berlin is a superbly crafted, incisive and urgent collection of new work from one of Australia’s most original poets, and deserving of the wide audience I am sure it will find. These are necessary poems for incendiary times.
- Sarah Holland-Batt' (Publication summary)
Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018
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Wildlife of Berlin
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
,
2018
12947828
2018
selected work
poetry
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