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Epigraph: The very rigid mental image of a squence of words, just as one is taking one's socks off to go to bed, is like a view of mountains from an aeroplane. They lie there making a single but comprehensible shape, with folds in them. But one hoards the sense of distance for fear of being lost if one were down there amongst the verbs and other difficult parts of speech. (Stephen Spender)
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The Mongrel : Australian Prose Poetry
2014
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— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 4 no. 1 2014; (p. 6-14)'A prose poem is what it says on the can: a piece of prose that is a poem; poetry, but written in prose. It's a contradiction, an oxymoron, a paradox. The prose poem can be erotic, satirical, funny, elegiac, surreal, angry, descriptive, mystifying, fragmented, fast, slow, realist, fabulist - there is no genre, style or subject that is the especial province of a prose poem. Why, then, does a poet decide on typing without hitting return? Why dose a poet forgo the possibilities of enjambment and caesura? Why write a prose poem?' (Author's introduction: 7)
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The Mongrel : Australian Prose Poetry
2014
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 4 no. 1 2014; (p. 6-14)'A prose poem is what it says on the can: a piece of prose that is a poem; poetry, but written in prose. It's a contradiction, an oxymoron, a paradox. The prose poem can be erotic, satirical, funny, elegiac, surreal, angry, descriptive, mystifying, fragmented, fast, slow, realist, fabulist - there is no genre, style or subject that is the especial province of a prose poem. Why, then, does a poet decide on typing without hitting return? Why dose a poet forgo the possibilities of enjambment and caesura? Why write a prose poem?' (Author's introduction: 7)
