Details: Product Description Some Sketchy Notes on Matter came together slowly around preoccupations of safety and shelter at an individual, societal and global level. I also wanted to look at the tensions between digital and analogue reality, between the city and a natural world that exists without us, strange, compelling and precarious. At its worst these tensions become an imbalance, a violence, threatening not only the individual body but the entire planet. Review With a hovering intelligence and a laudable lack of ego, the beautifully controlled poems of 'Some Sketchy Notes on Matter' investigate the world with an ecstatic's eye. Judges comments - 2018 Dorothy Hewitt Award shortlist. Angela Gardner's nuanced, lush poems continue to probe interstices between "culture" and "nature;" Judges' comments NAHR/ Australian Poetry Prize 2018 shortlist. Angela Gardner writes exploratory, vivid and world-engaged poetry Peter Philpott
