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'The sonnet is a classic lyric form that has beguiled and perplexed poets for over seven hundred years. In this, her thirteenth collection, Jordie Albiston re-invents the sonnet structure, trading meter for syllabics, and employing fifteen lines in lieu of the traditional fourteen. Themes of destruction and loss, hope and wonder, and the pressing fate of an unstable world, are coded like enduring questions into the machinery of these extraordinary poems.

'Albiston's relationship with the sonnet has prevailed since her earliest work, most notably the highly celebrated and award-winning the sonnet according to 'm'.'

Source : publisher's blurb

Notes

  • Epigraph: Speech is the small change of silence. -George Meredith

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2021 .
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      Extent: 98p.p.
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      • Published June 2021.
      ISBN: 9781922571007

Works about this Work

Acceptance Speech, John Bray Poetry Award David Musgrave , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 1 2022; (p. 100-101)
'Jordie Albiston (30 September 1961–28 February 2022) received this award posthumously, for her collection Fifteeners, the Awards’ website explains, also adding it was a book ‘which judges found “utterly enrapturing” and notes she wrote with an unmatchable precision’. Fifteeners was her thirteenth collection.' (Introduction)
 
Jordie Albiston Fifteeners Dan Disney , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Today , vol. 96 no. 3 2022; (p. 63-64)

— Review of Fifteeners Jordie Albiston , 2021 selected work poetry
'FIFTEENERS IS THE latest stunning installment in this storied poet’s fearless oeuvre, and Jordie Albiston’s book of strangest deformations of the sonnet form traverses “all the life / That an awkward person must go through in / The awkward course toward death.” In the first poem, an ars poetica and apologia, Albiston mimics an Elizabethan diction to reassert the privilege of affect over intellect: “Poetry may / be loved but never thought by love it may / be gotten holden but by thought nay so,” and that love is a paramountcy remains amply evidenced across this poet’s extensive catalog. Her books on love (Element; Euclid’s Dog: 100 Algorythmic Poems; The Book of Ethel) and its multiple modes of atrophy (Warlines; Jack & Mollie [& Her]; Vertigo: A Cantata) suggest that affective modalities—or is it the quest from disequilibrium toward idealized states—have long determined the impetus of this prolific and widely admired writer. (Introduction)
An Upward Fall : A Poet’s Quest for Totality Joan Fleming , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 440 2022; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Fifteeners Jordie Albiston , 2021 selected work poetry

'Every poet has his or her addictions: words they use over and over again, ones they own ‘by right of obsessive musical deed’ (to quote Richard Hugo). For Emily Dickinson, it was theethou, and Death. For Sylvia Plath, it was him, nothing, go, and gone. For Gabriel García Lorca, it was sangrelagrimas, negro, and corazón. For Jordie Albiston, it just might be world, the word that aims to contain everything.'  (Introduction)

An Upward Fall : A Poet’s Quest for Totality Joan Fleming , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 440 2022; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Fifteeners Jordie Albiston , 2021 selected work poetry

'Every poet has his or her addictions: words they use over and over again, ones they own ‘by right of obsessive musical deed’ (to quote Richard Hugo). For Emily Dickinson, it was theethou, and Death. For Sylvia Plath, it was him, nothing, go, and gone. For Gabriel García Lorca, it was sangrelagrimas, negro, and corazón. For Jordie Albiston, it just might be world, the word that aims to contain everything.'  (Introduction)

Jordie Albiston Fifteeners Dan Disney , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Today , vol. 96 no. 3 2022; (p. 63-64)

— Review of Fifteeners Jordie Albiston , 2021 selected work poetry
'FIFTEENERS IS THE latest stunning installment in this storied poet’s fearless oeuvre, and Jordie Albiston’s book of strangest deformations of the sonnet form traverses “all the life / That an awkward person must go through in / The awkward course toward death.” In the first poem, an ars poetica and apologia, Albiston mimics an Elizabethan diction to reassert the privilege of affect over intellect: “Poetry may / be loved but never thought by love it may / be gotten holden but by thought nay so,” and that love is a paramountcy remains amply evidenced across this poet’s extensive catalog. Her books on love (Element; Euclid’s Dog: 100 Algorythmic Poems; The Book of Ethel) and its multiple modes of atrophy (Warlines; Jack & Mollie [& Her]; Vertigo: A Cantata) suggest that affective modalities—or is it the quest from disequilibrium toward idealized states—have long determined the impetus of this prolific and widely admired writer. (Introduction)
Acceptance Speech, John Bray Poetry Award David Musgrave , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 1 2022; (p. 100-101)
'Jordie Albiston (30 September 1961–28 February 2022) received this award posthumously, for her collection Fifteeners, the Awards’ website explains, also adding it was a book ‘which judges found “utterly enrapturing” and notes she wrote with an unmatchable precision’. Fifteeners was her thirteenth collection.' (Introduction)
 
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