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Surface to Air
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2011
Z1802846
2011
selected work
poetry
'Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006 to 2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut Latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti.
'While many of the poems in latecomers, concerned the history and landscape of Bribie Island, where Savige grew up, this collection is about leaving the island and as such, it signals a departure from Latecomers.
'The title, Surface to Air, conveys the central themes of the collection, which include: the archaeological exposure of history, both personal and cultural, to the present; the struggle for literal inspiration, (a title of one of the poems) in contemporary life, with issues ranging from consumerism to personal grievance and loss; the ubiquity of violence, and the relationship between actual violence and the simulacrum of violence and war (connoted by the phrase "surface-to-air missile"); among others. It is also an invitation to be mindful of the surface effects of language.' (From the publisher's website.) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 pg. 37
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Surface to Air
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2011
Z1802846
2011
selected work
poetry
'Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006 to 2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut Latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti.
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Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
Michelle Cahill
(editor),
Kim Cheng Boey
(editor),
Adam Aitken
(editor),
Glebe
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Puncher and Wattmann
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2013
6169988
2013
anthology
poetry
(taught in 3 units)
This ground-breaking anthology collects poems written by Australian poets who are migrants, their children, and refugees of Asian heritage, spanning work that covers over three decades of writing. Inclusive of hitherto marginalised voices, these poems explore the hyphenated and variegated ways of being Asian Australian, and demonstrate how the different origins and traditions transplanted from Asia have generated new and different ways of being Australian. This anthology highlights the complexity of Asian Australian interactions between cultures and languages, and is a landmark in a rich, diversely-textured and evolving story. Timely and proactive this anthology fills existing cultural gaps in poetic expressions of home, travel, diaspora, identity, myth, empire and language. [from Trove]
Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2013 pg. 219-220
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Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
Michelle Cahill
(editor),
Kim Cheng Boey
(editor),
Adam Aitken
(editor),
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2013
6169988
2013
anthology
poetry
(taught in 3 units)
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