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Didier Coste Didier Coste i(A15599 works by) (birth name: Didier Fernand Genes Coste)
Born: Established: 1946
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France,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1973
Heritage: French
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1 y separately published work icon Anonymous of Troy Didier Coste , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2015 9036717 2015 selected work poetry

'Following a long creative practice of the sonnet (La Leçon d'Otilia, 1995), Anonymous of Troy inaugurates a new exploration of doubleness and overlay in terms of place, time and feeling, sustained by an equal doubleness in terms of form and language. The scene is Çanakkale, Turkey, facing Gelibolu on the other shore of the Dardanelles. But Gallipoli is a piece of ANZAC peering through the mirror of Port Jackson. The scene is Abydos facing Sestos, where Hero is still waiting for Leander. But the scene is also Truva, facing the infinite a few miles south, where Johnny Anadolu got the better of Achilles Johnson. The worldwide scene is then, thousands of years ago, as primitive as Parramatta today, the girl of both times will recognize herself in the TV commercial. Isolettric verse, sound play, anagrams, are cadenced to protect modernity against its ageing.' (Publication summary)
1 Lark Ascending i "Up and soaring, her rosy fingers a finch", Didier Coste , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 1 2012; (p. 99-100)
1 Out of the Blue i "That there should appear out of the blue", Didier Coste , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 1 2012; (p. 98-99)
1 From : Anonymous of Troy Didier Coste , 2012 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 1 2012; (p. 98-100) Long Paddock , vol. 72 no. 1 2012;
1 Australian and Indian Dawns of Realism : A Comparative Approach Didier Coste , Maya Boutaghou-Coste , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 45-55)
1 Sidere Mutato : Three Ways of Being Difficult (Mallarme, Brennan, Hope) Didier Coste , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 68 no. 3 2008; (p. 245-261) Mallarme, Brennan and Hope are studied 'under the related angles of two capital features shared by their poetry: displacement and difficulty' (246).
1 4 y separately published work icon Days in Sydney : Roman Didier Coste , Paris : Noesis , 2005 Z1518365 2005 single work novel
1 2 y separately published work icon Vita Australis Didier Coste , ( trans. Didier Coste )expression Sydney Montpellier : Wild and Woolley Fata Morgana , 1977 Z205640 1977 selected work poetry
1 Canberra i "Over several circles with some delay=Sur plusieurs cercles avec quelque retard", Didier Coste , 1977 single work poetry
— Appears in: Vita Australis 1977; (p. 17-18, 57-58)
1 Close to Everything Près de Tout i "No valuables not a living soul we must postpone=Rien qui vaille âme qui vive il faut surseoir", Didier Coste , 1977 single work poetry
— Appears in: Vita Australis 1977; (p. 15-16, 55-56)
1 That Mind Cet Esprit i "That mind you may wash it in lots of soap it will smell still=Cet esprit qu'on a beau savonner il sentira toujours", Didier Coste , 1977 single work poetry
— Appears in: Vita Australis 1977; (p. 11-12, 51-52)
2 Far from Lesbos i "Far from lesbos a beery mist hovers about the gardens", Didier Coste , 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aspect : Art and Literature , Autumn vol. 4 no. 1976; (p. 38-39)
— Appears in: Vita Australis 1977; (p. 13-14, 53-54)
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