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'As well as the main body of poems, there is a section of very brief pieces — Langford is also an aphorist — and a series of prose meditations: on the links between music and poetry, and on various aspects of jazz, classical and rock.' (Publication summary)
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Rose Lucas Reviews Eardrum by Martin Langford
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;
— Review of Eardrum 2019 selected work poetry prose -
Martin Langford : Eardrum : Poems and Prose about Music
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 15 2020;
— Review of Eardrum 2019 selected work poetry prose'Music is the most emotionally engaging of the arts/entertainments, the one we hold most closely to. You can lose friends after arguing about music whereas you are unlikely to lose friends claiming that Thackeray is a better novelist than Dickens or that Antonioni’s films are overrated. Martin Langford’s Eardrum is entirely about music. It is immediately engaging (at least to me) but unusually difficult to write about because one is continuously breaking off one’s own composition to argue with some specific point or to follow another one further. This usually doesn’t happen with books of poetry where a critic is able to retain a certain personal distance from what a poem wants to say about society or a tree, or wants to do in some experiment with form or language.' (Introduction)
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Martin Langford : Eardrum : Poems and Prose about Music
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 15 2020;
— Review of Eardrum 2019 selected work poetry prose'Music is the most emotionally engaging of the arts/entertainments, the one we hold most closely to. You can lose friends after arguing about music whereas you are unlikely to lose friends claiming that Thackeray is a better novelist than Dickens or that Antonioni’s films are overrated. Martin Langford’s Eardrum is entirely about music. It is immediately engaging (at least to me) but unusually difficult to write about because one is continuously breaking off one’s own composition to argue with some specific point or to follow another one further. This usually doesn’t happen with books of poetry where a critic is able to retain a certain personal distance from what a poem wants to say about society or a tree, or wants to do in some experiment with form or language.' (Introduction)
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Rose Lucas Reviews Eardrum by Martin Langford
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;
— Review of Eardrum 2019 selected work poetry prose
