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Like To The Lark
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Author: Stuart Barnes
Title: Like To The Lark
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 129
Release Date: 2023-02-02
Details: Winner of the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry, long-listed for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, highly commended in the 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Like To The Lark is Stuart Barnes's poetic Back to Mine, an accumulation of lifetime fascinations with music and sound, form and transformation. Beginning with an apparition of a doomed world brooding over itself and ending with a kvelling globe, this long-awaited second collection from the winner of the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize plunges-'What a plunge!' ('What a lark!')-into seas, scoots across countries and hurtles towards space. Ghazal shapeshifts into pantoum, duplex, sonnet, sestina, terminal and more plus two new forms invented by Barnes-terse-set and flashbang.
As influenced by popular culture as they are by classical mythology, these poems-by turns playful, serious, tender, bold, surprising and witty-are fearless in their explorations of rape, illness, death, remembrance, ecology, love and joy. While 'Fog / and Grief preen' over a serodiscordant gay couple, a phoenix-like Royal Poinciana declares 'My breath is rooted in kindness'. Forged from and framed by conversations with Nick Drake, Gwen Harwood, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare, Robert Smith and others, Barnes's poems sparkle with vivid lyricism and wild inventiveness, and summon great care for the way they tend and transmute trauma and illuminate the resilience of human and non-human beings.
EAN: 9780645536980
Package Dimensions: Height: 8.2677 Inches, Length: 5.98424 Inches, Weight: 0.330693393 Pounds, Width: 0.3937 Inches
