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Blakwork

Whittaker, Alison2018
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A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique choreographed by one of Australia's most exciting new poets. Alison Whittaker's BLAKWORK is a powerful collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present. The pieces in BLAKWORK range from the political, seething with intelligent anger, to the personal, tenderly exploring ways humans are connected. Whittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas- identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and leaving us with something impossibly more than we started with. This is the voice of a poet coming into their own, using a variety of inventive forms to create a resonance that is felt long after the page is closed.
Main title:
Blakwork / Alison Whittaker.
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Imprint:
Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2018.©2018
Collation:
179 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781925360851 (pbk)1925360857 (pbk)9781925360851 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A828.4828.4
Language:
English
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BRN:
513562
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