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'Gayelene Carbis, in her second collection I Have Decided To Remain Vertical, pushes ideas and images beyond autobiography into that slightly surreal, sometimes whimsical, often heartbreaking territory of the poem that sings even as it laments, that can bring artfulness and authenticity into communion, and balances itself on a knife-edge of irony.' (Publication summary)
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Marion May Campbell Reviews I Have Decided To Remain Vertical by Gayelene Carbis
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 29 2023;
— Review of I Have Decided to Remain Vertical 2022 selected work poetry'I Have Decided To Remain Vertical is an exhilarating extension and intensification of some of the major themes of Carbis’s first collection Anecdotal Evidence: her never leaving Carnegie; a family strangely functional in the wake of brokenness, as poesis summons vivid mosaics from the fragments; the devastated heart and the paradoxical sustenance it finds by revisiting the penumbra of relations; the contradiction between word and gesture; the magnetism of the loving body while the erotic body feels cancelled in its relegation to mere companionship, and the fearless probing of domestic anguish in the wake of paternal carelessness.' (Introduction)
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Striking Parallels : Ekphrasis and the Body
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 455 2023; (p. 50-51)
— Review of I Have Decided to Remain Vertical 2022 selected work poetry ; The Drama Student 2023 selected work poetry
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Striking Parallels : Ekphrasis and the Body
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 455 2023; (p. 50-51)
— Review of I Have Decided to Remain Vertical 2022 selected work poetry ; The Drama Student 2023 selected work poetry -
Marion May Campbell Reviews I Have Decided To Remain Vertical by Gayelene Carbis
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 29 2023;
— Review of I Have Decided to Remain Vertical 2022 selected work poetry'I Have Decided To Remain Vertical is an exhilarating extension and intensification of some of the major themes of Carbis’s first collection Anecdotal Evidence: her never leaving Carnegie; a family strangely functional in the wake of brokenness, as poesis summons vivid mosaics from the fragments; the devastated heart and the paradoxical sustenance it finds by revisiting the penumbra of relations; the contradiction between word and gesture; the magnetism of the loving body while the erotic body feels cancelled in its relegation to mere companionship, and the fearless probing of domestic anguish in the wake of paternal carelessness.' (Introduction)
