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Isi Unikowski Isi Unikowski i(A128352 works by)
Born: Established: Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Library at Night i "Waiting for my wife to end her late shift at the desk,", Isi Unikowski , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 68 no. 2 2023; (p. 26-27)
1 Collecting i "The weatherboards built years earlier across the street were ex-Army:", Isi Unikowski , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 11 no. 2 2023; (p. 173)
1 An Olive Tree in Flower i "A B-grade movie drumbeat of doors and panes,", Isi Unikowski , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 14 2023;
1 To Those Born After a Plague Year i "That you were conceived before the Afterwards of uncommon times", Isi Unikowski , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , January/February vol. 67 no. 1/2 2023; (p. 94)
1 Newton's Cradle i "I know that there will be a night when we", Isi Unikowski , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , December vol. 10 no. 2 2022; (p. 156-157)
1 y separately published work icon Kintsugi Isi Unikowski , Waratah : Puncher and Wattmann , 2022 24968476 2022 selected work poetry

'The Japanese art of ‘Kintsugi’, the use of gold or other materials to repair and decorate broken pottery, provides the underlying theme of this collection. Time, memory, place and love become the agents that break, bind and repair throughout. The first section explores the connotations and impact of ‘place’ . As if to emphasise the ‘kin’ in ‘Kintsugi’, poems in the second section describe the perspectives, stresses and occasional breakages of being a parent and a child but remind us, too that such relationships offer ‘new coastlines of experience’. The third section meditates on objects and their protean meanings.'  (Publication summary)
1 Hilarious Contraption i "The picture shows a man leaping from a second-floor window. It doesn’t seem too high", Isi Unikowski , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 66 no. 3 2022; (p. 24)
1 A Short History of Writing i "In the morning, I went out with the officials.", Isi Unikowski , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 9 no. 2 2021; (p. 27-28)
1 A Bag of Pinwheel Biscuits i "The local cakeshops were not ethnic enough for us", Isi Unikowski , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 9 no. 2 2021; (p. 25-26)
1 Pumping Station i "Bowler-hatted, unsmiling, moustachioed", Isi Unikowski , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 66 no. 2 2021; (p. 158-159) Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 132)
1 Reading “Japanese Maple” by Clive James, West Basin, 22 November 2019 Isi Unikowski , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 64 no. 5 2020; (p. 74)
1 A Pebble for the Quiet Place i "Now with all seasons damaged under our savage dominion", Isi Unikowski , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 42-43)
1 A Red Rhododendron i "She has signed the forms in her diffident hand,", Isi Unikowski , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 63 no. 9 2019; (p. 18-19)
1 For You Who Did Not Ask i "For you who never had the time", Isi Unikowski , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Solace : Poems from the 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry 2019; (p. 98-100)
1 Exeunt i "The paddocks present their blind flanks to the sun", Isi Unikowski , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , April vol. 7 no. 1 2019; (p. 137)
1 Icaria i "As always, time’s sieve selects a myth from the facts,", Isi Unikowski , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;
1 Watchman in the Orchard i "A roof away", Isi Unikowski , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Joy : Poems from the 2017 ACU Prize for Poetry 2017; (p. 73-75)
1 Stone Suite i "At first you hardly recognise them for what they are:", Isi Unikowski , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 5 no. 1 2017; (p. 105-109)
1 Sheep Graziers’ Alert i "Frost has laid its nightly siege engine:", Isi Unikowski , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 2 2017;
1 Grammar Lesson i "There should be a name for the special case", Isi Unikowski , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry - ACT 2017;
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