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'All but four of these poems by LK Holt are fourteen-liners: free-verse sonnets if you like—certainly lyrics, but somehow massive. They have elegance, terror, surprising imaginations, humour and extraordinarily disciplined thought. The darting variety that marked her prize-winning first collection has come to a steadier gaze in her second.
'A nut-shell account of the book’s four parts might describe a movement from familial well-being—happy-being—to a concluding psalmic sufferance, through reflections on the survival-feats of boys and men, on the self-presence of young women, and on love.
'That description catches her intimate touch but not her outreach. Holt’s writing shows how the present doesn’t escape the weight, or the light, of ancient narratives. History stands inside poems of contemporary dailiness, turning them to half-epic.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Dedication: for Jemma & Monika
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Poetry Review
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
What I Want : A Personal Poetics
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 17 no. 4 2010; (p. 34-35) -
Going for the Jugular
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 August 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry
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Going for the Jugular
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 August 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry -
Poetry Review
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
What I Want : A Personal Poetics
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 17 no. 4 2010; (p. 34-35)