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'These poems are unflinching in the face of death, yet suffused with the delights of living, from a potato harvest to a walk beside a river. They are in tune with the complexities of the modern world — the unseen environmental impact of war, an apocalyptic vision of a flooded city, a shocking glimpse of school bullying, the very ordinary dreams of refugees. An extended sequence, set during the Vietnam war, dramatises the confronting nature of combat and the way it comes back to haunt you, night after sleepless night. Finally, a fascination with the creativity of painters builds to the blazing farewell of an unknown artist.'
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Simone King Reviews The Tomb of the Unknown Artist by Andy Kissane
2020
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review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of The Tomb of the Unknown Artist 2019 selected work poetry -
Sleepless Night
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June - July no. 412 2019; (p. 57)
— Review of The Tomb of the Unknown Artist 2019 selected work poetry'Andy Kissane, who (with Belle Ling) shared the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, is one of Australia’s most moving poets. He is unfailingly empathetic, a master of poetic narrative – and of the ‘middle style’ where language is not an end in itself but an unobtrusive vehicle for poignancy (or, occasionally, humour or irony). The Tomb of the Unknown Artist, Kissane’s fifth collection, is divided into four thematic sections, all of which contain powerful and memorable poems. Of these, Part Three, a series of monologues from the Vietnam War, is the most disturbing.' (Introduction)
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Sleepless Night
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June - July no. 412 2019; (p. 57)
— Review of The Tomb of the Unknown Artist 2019 selected work poetry'Andy Kissane, who (with Belle Ling) shared the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, is one of Australia’s most moving poets. He is unfailingly empathetic, a master of poetic narrative – and of the ‘middle style’ where language is not an end in itself but an unobtrusive vehicle for poignancy (or, occasionally, humour or irony). The Tomb of the Unknown Artist, Kissane’s fifth collection, is divided into four thematic sections, all of which contain powerful and memorable poems. Of these, Part Three, a series of monologues from the Vietnam War, is the most disturbing.' (Introduction)
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Simone King Reviews The Tomb of the Unknown Artist by Andy Kissane
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of The Tomb of the Unknown Artist 2019 selected work poetry
