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'"Rhythm and pattern follow with precision the rich tonality of Lucas’s visual and aural perceptions delivered with just enough tension to allow a line to run free or a word to drop and hang alone where it dances or stops" – Amanda Joy Cordite
'"Lucas’s collection shines with a clear intelligence and keen observation of the everyday, landscape, place, art, love and grief. The poems, evocative and moving, also sit so lightly on the page." – Lucy Dougan, Philip Mead and Marcella Polain, Mary Gilmore Award Judges 2014
'"Lucas’s poems are composed of vivid bursts of colour" – Cassandra Atherton, ABR' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Epigraph:
however close our touch
or intimate our speech,
silences, spaces reach
most deep, and will not close.
–Judith Wright, 'Space Between'
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Dedication:
For my mother
Valerie Lucas
1922-2013
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Review Short : Rose Lucas’s Unexpected Clearing
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August no. 55.0 2016;
— Review of Unexpected Clearing : Poems by Rose Lucas 2016 selected work poetry -
Phillip Hall Reviews Unexpected Clearing by Rose Lucas and Line of Drift by Robyn Rowland
2016
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2016; 'Robyn Rowland and Rose Lucas write hymns of praise to the natural world where the anticipation of regeneration in domestic routine, intimacy and travel is juxtaposed with the disturbance of bushfire, old age and bereavement. And both poets are steadfast in advocating for the transformative capacity of the arts in documenting these moments. ' (Introduction) -
Cut Glass Dancing
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 20 no. 2 2016;
— Review of Unexpected Clearing : Poems by Rose Lucas 2016 selected work poetry
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Review Short : Rose Lucas’s Unexpected Clearing
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August no. 55.0 2016;
— Review of Unexpected Clearing : Poems by Rose Lucas 2016 selected work poetry -
Cut Glass Dancing
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 20 no. 2 2016;
— Review of Unexpected Clearing : Poems by Rose Lucas 2016 selected work poetry -
Phillip Hall Reviews Unexpected Clearing by Rose Lucas and Line of Drift by Robyn Rowland
2016
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2016; 'Robyn Rowland and Rose Lucas write hymns of praise to the natural world where the anticipation of regeneration in domestic routine, intimacy and travel is juxtaposed with the disturbance of bushfire, old age and bereavement. And both poets are steadfast in advocating for the transformative capacity of the arts in documenting these moments. ' (Introduction)
