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The Land as Breath: Can Poetic Forms Be Metaphors for Landscapes? single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Land as Breath: Can Poetic Forms Be Metaphors for Landscapes?
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'We are standing in the midst of a football field doubled in size and then doubled again; a great, flat oval of water covered by streaks of green sedge that strike up from the surface like spindly grass. It’s a wetland, but one that has spent the last few years of drought as land; this year, the heavy winter rains that have filled the island’s hydro dams have tipped this landscape into living water.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review Land vol. 82 1 August 2017 11953841 2017 periodical issue

    'When we chose to edit an issue of Cordite Poetry Review around the theme of ‘Land’, it was with an interest in the inherent openness of the word. Similarly, we came without a strong affiliation to any particular poetics, though of course our own aesthetic, moral and intellectual predispositions followed us. The process of reading through the many submissions was exploratory and open-minded.' (Editorial)

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  • Physick P. R. Hay , 2016 selected work poetry
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