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'When I read Rose Hunter's poetry I am immersed in the flow of her music, as if the conscious world is an intensely coloured envelope of experience: wonder mixed with something dark and unpredictable. Anyone who can say 'a cantaloupe is the fruit equivalent of a lobster' has my full attention. - Angela Gardner'
'Rose Hunter's poems decentre the speaking subject, shifting position from the absurd to the oneiric, from the colourful streets of Mexico to Brisbane. Part-diary, part-confession, glass is a delicate and resilient collection, a hybrid language answering poetry's questions of memory and desire. - Michelle Cahill'
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A Modern-day Gospel of the Picaresque
2018
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— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;'‘Poetry is an exile’s art,’ remarked American poet Charles Wright. ‘Anyone who writes it seriously writes from an exile’s point of view’ (Wright 2002: 27).
'What if a poet manages to capture not only the exile’s point of view but also the insider’s? What happens if those viewpoints converge? In Glass, her latest collection of Australian-born, Mexico-based poet, Rose Hunter accounts for both perspectives, and limns their somewhat uneasy merger. The more miles the ‘i’ of the poems clocks up on the road and the more places she records, the less the destinations seem to matter, and the more interiorised the journey actually becomes.' (Introduction)
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Review Short : Rose Hunter’s Glass
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;
— Review of Glass 2017 selected work poetry'Glass is a collection of elegiac poems, a memoir of free verse about the poet’s travels through Mexico and her own debilitating ailment. The ‘you’ in book is addressed with a certain fondness (‘where are you / i feel of course now we would have the most wonderful conversation’) and an intimacy that suggests the poet is speaking to someone she was once romantically involved with..' (Introduction)
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Of Its Gilt Edges and Evident Fanfare – Glass, Rose Hunter - by Angela Gardner
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 15 2018;
— Review of Glass 2017 selected work poetry
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Of Its Gilt Edges and Evident Fanfare – Glass, Rose Hunter - by Angela Gardner
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 15 2018;
— Review of Glass 2017 selected work poetry -
Review Short : Rose Hunter’s Glass
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;
— Review of Glass 2017 selected work poetry'Glass is a collection of elegiac poems, a memoir of free verse about the poet’s travels through Mexico and her own debilitating ailment. The ‘you’ in book is addressed with a certain fondness (‘where are you / i feel of course now we would have the most wonderful conversation’) and an intimacy that suggests the poet is speaking to someone she was once romantically involved with..' (Introduction)
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A Modern-day Gospel of the Picaresque
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;'‘Poetry is an exile’s art,’ remarked American poet Charles Wright. ‘Anyone who writes it seriously writes from an exile’s point of view’ (Wright 2002: 27).
'What if a poet manages to capture not only the exile’s point of view but also the insider’s? What happens if those viewpoints converge? In Glass, her latest collection of Australian-born, Mexico-based poet, Rose Hunter accounts for both perspectives, and limns their somewhat uneasy merger. The more miles the ‘i’ of the poems clocks up on the road and the more places she records, the less the destinations seem to matter, and the more interiorised the journey actually becomes.' (Introduction)