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'This new anthology of Australian and New Zealand poetry is remarkable for its exuberance, its vitality, and the notably youthful vibrancy of its free verse as well as its innovative prose poetry. Including a wide range of voices from such well-known poets as John Kinsella, Pam Brown, and John Tranter to relative new-comers like Chris Tse and essa may ranapiri, The Language in my Tongue is full of surprises and special pleasures.
—Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita of English
at Stanford University and Florence R. Scott Professor
of English Emerita at the University of Southern California
'Here are vernaculars. Here are modern-day classics. Here is a “mind in an unclear world,” “a space perfection will never survive.” Here is invention permitted to travel the world, in dense prose poems and in chatty ones, in capable free verse and ghazals, “emissaries” and “a russet lock in an envelope.” Here Echnida meets the Spider, “making things transparent,” and here [is] bodily frailty and erotic love. Here, readers, are some highlights of the Antipodes, two—no, far more than two—poetic traditions, made available for you. Investigate. Drink deep.
—Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University' (Publication summary)
Contents
- The Fire Watchers : A Memoir (in the Sydney Style)i"Too blind to be a fireman, too flat footed", single work poetry (p. 1-2)
- Incendiaryi"He stands there in black shot silk", single work poetry (p. 3-4)
- Rock Carvings, Sydney, single work poetry (p. 5-6)
- Lines from The Loveri"It was never a question of beauty but something else. Mind for example. For a long", single work poetry (p. 7)
- [Anon], single work poetry (p. 8)
- [Untitled], single work poetry (p. 9)
- [Untitled], single work poetry (p. 10)
- Calciumi"from Jawbone Reserve to Fleming’s Pool tide has", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Bondsi"You wore a white bonds t-shirt to bed last night. A plain, white, no-nonsense Bonds", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Plum(b)i"William Carlos Williams is a genius. And he has my lover’s initials", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Violinist, single work poetry (p. 14)
- Relics of Hiroshima, single work poetry (p. 15)
- Off-World Ghazali"Are you ready for the round-up, World?", single work poetry (p. 16-18)
- The Morning Fog, single work poetry (p. 19)
- Hamlet without the Princei"Vulnerable as a forest red-tailed black cockatoos, you went south the day", single work poetry (p. 20)
- The Being, single work poetry (p. 21)
- White Lines on Pinki"I arrived by the pink bark-stripped eucalyptus tree last Sunday", single work poetry (p. 22)
- A Tusk's Chalking Innocence against Evening, single work poetry (p. 23)
- A Thousand Charactersi"This, too, is about a thousand characters. It’s much like the", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Bees Nudge the Mouth of a Feathered Rosei"Handing my friend a new book of poems there is an object at the", single work poetry (p. 25)
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Works about this Work
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‘Might Be Long Long Time’ : A Mixed Anthology of Trans-Tasman Poetry
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 51-52)
— Review of The Language in My Tongue : An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry 2022 anthology poetry 'There’s an old Irish saying: ‘If you want praise, die. If you want blame, marry.’ I could add from personal experience, ‘If you really want blame, edit a poetry anthology.’ While poetry is relatively popular, it often seems that more people write it than read it. As a result, poets can be desperate for affirmation and recognition, managing their careers more jealously than investment bankers. What too often gets lost in all the log-rolling and back-scratching is the poetry. We turn to anthologies for help, hoping to find in small, palatable doses good poets we can choose to read in depth. We find anthologies representing nations or geographical regions, literary periods, ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations, forms, categories like postmodernism, post-colonialism, eco-poetry, and themes like love or madness.' (Publication summary)
-
‘Might Be Long Long Time’ : A Mixed Anthology of Trans-Tasman Poetry
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 51-52)
— Review of The Language in My Tongue : An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry 2022 anthology poetry 'There’s an old Irish saying: ‘If you want praise, die. If you want blame, marry.’ I could add from personal experience, ‘If you really want blame, edit a poetry anthology.’ While poetry is relatively popular, it often seems that more people write it than read it. As a result, poets can be desperate for affirmation and recognition, managing their careers more jealously than investment bankers. What too often gets lost in all the log-rolling and back-scratching is the poetry. We turn to anthologies for help, hoping to find in small, palatable doses good poets we can choose to read in depth. We find anthologies representing nations or geographical regions, literary periods, ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations, forms, categories like postmodernism, post-colonialism, eco-poetry, and themes like love or madness.' (Publication summary)
