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'Space travel likened to a dream, pursued refugees, bikes 'ridden in a free-form dance with cars', Olympian exertion, and a crime whose solution involves global flight - these are some of the many forms of motion in Andrew Sant's tenth collection of poems. Set in Australia, China and Europe, the poems predominantly angle in on aspects of speed, a matter the French historian Marc Bloch considered the one particularly distinctive feature that distinguishes contemporary civilisation from those which preceded it. They include narratives, lyrics, dramatic monologues - diverse points of view with social and political dimensions.
'The other liberties of the title exist - often under pressure but whose boundaries are often broadened by wit - in recognisable rural and urban environments as well as in imagined places, for example in a playfully conceived banana's republic. Another is an island which has affinities with Robinson Crusoe's. The book also introduces for the first time Mr Habitat, a brisk character with a strong voice, who is nowhere at home yet in gutsy, colloquial language expresses his views and makes wry observations - often in tight urban situations.
'It is a collection that's verbally headlong, edgy and energetic, richly observant and wide-ranging, concluding with the celebratory poem 'Abundance', about bird and sea life off the Irish coast, and which suggests there is much to be gained from recognising that certain liberties exist at an irreversible cost.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Contents
- Stanzasi"A can of Dulux is thrummed", single work poetry (p. 2-3)
- Nike at the Megalithsi"At the megalithic temple", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- Sydney Olympiani"In the heat, at the front door,", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Saxophone in a Pawnbroker's Windowi"Lost days when cavernous notes", single work poetry (p. 60)
- Excursion Delayed, single work poetry
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'Gothic Splendours'? : Recent Tasmanian Historical Fiction
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island , no. 142 2015; (p. 20-26) Peter Pierce investigates recent 'Gothic' historical fiction set in Tasmania. -
Lamenting the Speed of Modern Culture
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 24 no. 2 2010; (p. 209-210)
— Review of Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry -
Andrew Sant : 'Speed & Other Liberties'
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 68-70)
— Review of Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry -
At the Crossroads : Australian Poetry 2008-2009
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 115-127)
— Review of The Golden Bird 2008 single work poetry ; View from the Lucky Hotel 2008 selected work poetry ; Theatre 2008 selected work poetry ; Letters to the Tremulous Hand 2007 selected work poetry ; Vincent Buckley : Collected Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; True Thoughts 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out 2007 single work poetry ; Bark 2008 selected work poetry ; Divine Comedy : Journeys Through Regional Geography 2008 selected work poetry prose ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry ; Man Wolf Man 2007 selected work poetry ; Aria 2008 selected work poetry ; Autographs : 56 Poems in Prose 2006 selected work poetry ; Ambulances and Dreamers 2008 selected work poetry ; Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Sixty Classic Australian Poems 2009 single work criticism ; Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse 2009 selected work poetry -
Launch : Andrew Sant's Speed and Other Liberties
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 38 2009; (p. 144-145)
— Review of Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry
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Mood and Pacing
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Tasmanian , 14 September 2008; (p. 6)
— Review of Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry -
Poetic Journeys to Internal Spaces and Foreign Places
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 September 2008; (p. 18)
— Review of Theatre 2008 selected work poetry ; Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry ; Unanimous Night 2008 selected work poetry -
Elbow Room!
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 309 2009; (p. 48-49)
— Review of Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry -
Launch : Andrew Sant's Speed and Other Liberties
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 38 2009; (p. 144-145)
— Review of Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry -
At the Crossroads : Australian Poetry 2008-2009
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 115-127)
— Review of The Golden Bird 2008 single work poetry ; View from the Lucky Hotel 2008 selected work poetry ; Theatre 2008 selected work poetry ; Letters to the Tremulous Hand 2007 selected work poetry ; Vincent Buckley : Collected Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; True Thoughts 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out 2007 single work poetry ; Bark 2008 selected work poetry ; Divine Comedy : Journeys Through Regional Geography 2008 selected work poetry prose ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry ; Man Wolf Man 2007 selected work poetry ; Aria 2008 selected work poetry ; Autographs : 56 Poems in Prose 2006 selected work poetry ; Ambulances and Dreamers 2008 selected work poetry ; Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Sixty Classic Australian Poems 2009 single work criticism ; Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse 2009 selected work poetry -
'Gothic Splendours'? : Recent Tasmanian Historical Fiction
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island , no. 142 2015; (p. 20-26) Peter Pierce investigates recent 'Gothic' historical fiction set in Tasmania.