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Contents
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‘I Think I Know That Smile’,
single work
review
— Review of Mirabilia 2022 selected work poetry ;'If extraordinary things (‘mirabilia’) attract our attention and interest us, it seems inevitable that our perceptions will either occlude or indulge complexities that aren’t obvious, that are correlatives of loss or damage. And part of the poet’s task is to illuminate and possibly contest these subtextual correlatives. In Lisa Gorton’s new collection of poetry, Mirabilia, this is certainly the case — in fact, it is a book of contesting ways of seeing and manners around expression. Visual art can be extraordinary, but its making can so easily have hidden negative consequences. Poetry can give with one line and take with the next. Gorton has worked to create a poetry that critiques its own presence as art, that asks difficult questions about its processes, and analyses the way language has been used to arrive at ‘the poem’. ' (Introduction)
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Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work,
single work
essay
Epigraph:
i just want plumbing, art
Gareth Morgan, ‘the national debt’.
I hate work so / That I have found a way
Lesbia Harford, ‘I hate work so’.
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Acts of Living,
single work
review
— Review of Diagnosis Normal : A Memoir of Unspeakable Things 2022 single work autobiography ; -
Against Lifestyle,
single work
review
— Review of Shirley 2023 single work novel ;