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'Jam Sticky Vision is the successor to Luke Beesley's highly-regarded third book of poetry, New Works on Paper, published by Giramondo in 2013. The poems in this collection blend observation, memory and anecdote - with particular interest in American film, rock music, visual arts and poetry, and the way they inhabit the poet's everyday life in contemporary Melbourne. They create 'an uncanny universe', which hovers somewhere between the real world and that of the poet's imagination, characterised by surprising encounters and fleeting details rendered with the utmost clarity, full of intimate disclosures and yet somehow public in its openness, where everything is animated by liveliness - objects, sensations, colours, even words as they appear on the page. As one critic has noted, "Beesley's books make for very healthy reading. Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, the menu not overly processed - no greasy late-night noir." As another has written, "his windows open out to an 'other' view, wholly within our grasp but difficult to articulate".' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: In a time of confusion and rapid change like the present, when terms a continually turning inside out and the names of things hardly keep their meaning from day to day, it's not possible to write two honest paragraphs without stopping to take crossbearings on every one of the abstractions that were so well ranged in ornate marble niches in the minds of our fathers. –John Dos Passos (1935)
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Relive Your Dreams Awake
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2017; ''‘A Thousand Characters’, the opening prose poem of Luke Beesley’s fourth collection of poetry, Jam Sticky Vision, invites by being uninviting...' -
R. D. Wood Reviews Jam Sticky Vision by Luke Beesley
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2016;
— Review of Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry -
Poetry as Cattle Prod : Five New Poetry Collections
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 377 2015; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Law of Poetry 2015 selected work poetry ; The Hour of Silvered Mullet 2015 selected work poetry ; The Ladder 2015 selected work poetry ; Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry ; Immune Systems 2015 selected work poetry -
Review Short : Luke Beesley’s Jam Sticky Vision
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 51.1 2015;
— Review of Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry -
Australian Poetry
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 September 2015; (p. 18)
— Review of Inside My Mother 2015 selected work poetry ; Walking with Elephants 2015 selected work poetry ; Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry
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Australian Poetry
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 September 2015; (p. 18)
— Review of Inside My Mother 2015 selected work poetry ; Walking with Elephants 2015 selected work poetry ; Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry -
Review Short : Luke Beesley’s Jam Sticky Vision
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 51.1 2015;
— Review of Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry -
Poetry as Cattle Prod : Five New Poetry Collections
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 377 2015; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Law of Poetry 2015 selected work poetry ; The Hour of Silvered Mullet 2015 selected work poetry ; The Ladder 2015 selected work poetry ; Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry ; Immune Systems 2015 selected work poetry -
R. D. Wood Reviews Jam Sticky Vision by Luke Beesley
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2016;
— Review of Jam Sticky Vision 2015 selected work poetry -
Relive Your Dreams Awake
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2017; ''‘A Thousand Characters’, the opening prose poem of Luke Beesley’s fourth collection of poetry, Jam Sticky Vision, invites by being uninviting...'