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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Water Mirrors
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'Water Mirrors was inspired by the author Nicholas Powell's "enchanting and disorientating" experience of moving to Finland. His poems circle intimacy, illusions, and the task of reconciling the many facets of experience. It is concerned with fluctuating perceptions, and with the relationship of language to meaning and aesthetics. Subjects range from the personal to the political, to art and nature.' Source: www.uqp.uq.edu.au/ (Sighted 02/07/2012).

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  • Dedication: For Laura

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Works about this Work

A Taster-Plate Full of Possibilities : Paul Summers Reviews ‘Water Mirrors’ by Nicholas Powell Paul Summers , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 7 2013;

— Review of Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry
Lasting Souvenirs of the Roads Travelled Ali Smith , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 March 2013; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Limited Cities Lachlan Brown , 2012 selected work poetry ; Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry ; Recurrence Graeme Miles , 2012 selected work poetry
Aspects of Australian Poetry in 2012 Michelle Cahill , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 68-91)

'T he act of reading for appraisal rather than pleasure is a privilege that brings me to a deepened understanding of the contemporary in Australian poetry, the way the past is being framed, its traditions, celebrities and enigmas washed up in new and hybrid appearances or redressed in more conventional, sometimes nimbus forms. Judith Wright wrote that the ‘place to find clues is not in the present, it lies in the past: a shallow past, as all immigrants to Australia know, and all of us are immigrants.’ The discipline of reading to filter such a range of voices underlines my foreignness, making reading akin to translation, whilst reciprocally inviting the reader of this essay to become a foreigner to my assumptions and conclusions.' (Introduction)

Abracadabra's Side of the Story Geoff Page , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 August 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry
Best of 2012 : The Top 10 Poetic Works Ali Alizadeh , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2012;

— Review of The Jaguar's Dream : Translations, Adaptations, Versions, Extrapolations, Interpolations, Afters, Takes and Departures John Kinsella , 2012 selected work poetry ; Ash Is Here, So are Stars Jill Jones , 2012 selected work poetry ; The Family Idiot Fiona Hile , 2012 selected work poetry ; Autoethnographic Michael Brennan , 2012 selected work poetry ; 2012 and Other Poems Amanda Anastasi , 2012 selected work poetry ; Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry ; Ruby Moonlight Ali Cobby Eckermann , 2012 single work novel ; Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry ; Marionette : Notes Toward the Life and Times of Miss Marion Davies Jessica Wilkinson , 2012 selected work poetry
Abracadabra's Side of the Story Geoff Page , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 August 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry
Lasting Souvenirs of the Roads Travelled Ali Smith , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 March 2013; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Limited Cities Lachlan Brown , 2012 selected work poetry ; Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry ; Recurrence Graeme Miles , 2012 selected work poetry
A Taster-Plate Full of Possibilities : Paul Summers Reviews ‘Water Mirrors’ by Nicholas Powell Paul Summers , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 7 2013;

— Review of Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry
Best of 2012 : The Top 10 Poetic Works Ali Alizadeh , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2012;

— Review of The Jaguar's Dream : Translations, Adaptations, Versions, Extrapolations, Interpolations, Afters, Takes and Departures John Kinsella , 2012 selected work poetry ; Ash Is Here, So are Stars Jill Jones , 2012 selected work poetry ; The Family Idiot Fiona Hile , 2012 selected work poetry ; Autoethnographic Michael Brennan , 2012 selected work poetry ; 2012 and Other Poems Amanda Anastasi , 2012 selected work poetry ; Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry ; Ruby Moonlight Ali Cobby Eckermann , 2012 single work novel ; Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry ; Marionette : Notes Toward the Life and Times of Miss Marion Davies Jessica Wilkinson , 2012 selected work poetry
Aspects of Australian Poetry in 2012 Michelle Cahill , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 68-91)

'T he act of reading for appraisal rather than pleasure is a privilege that brings me to a deepened understanding of the contemporary in Australian poetry, the way the past is being framed, its traditions, celebrities and enigmas washed up in new and hybrid appearances or redressed in more conventional, sometimes nimbus forms. Judith Wright wrote that the ‘place to find clues is not in the present, it lies in the past: a shallow past, as all immigrants to Australia know, and all of us are immigrants.’ The discipline of reading to filter such a range of voices underlines my foreignness, making reading akin to translation, whilst reciprocally inviting the reader of this essay to become a foreigner to my assumptions and conclusions.' (Introduction)

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