Off Limits - Couverture souple

Wakeling, Louise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1922571024 ISBN 13 : 9781922571021

Editeur : Puncher and Wattmann, 2021

Synopsis

A rare combination of elegance and punchiness is at the heart of the poetry in this collection. Louise Wakeling's world is one in which "turbulence gets around", "words disappear/like dwindling rain over parapets" and the complexities and vulnerabilities involved in being alive merge with the richness and occasional spikiness of the natural world. It may not be possible to hug a Saguaro, but then again, it might be... Off Limits offers us one fine poem after another.

- Ross Gillett

some give (cactus) a wide berth.

handle them gingerly? you better.

they're prickly and quirky as a room full of poets.

This is a brilliantly bristling & idiosyncratic collection of Sydney poetry (with an eye to the world). And as it shells through the detritus of place, a glinting midden is unearthed. This is a haunting ecopoetic: deferential fo First Nations, awake to social & ecological injustice, and brimful of lyrically imagist joy.

- Phillip Hall

Wakeling is the skeptic arsonist; sharp-eyed seer of the under things of places you thought you knew.

Here she burns the words to see their lights. Watch your step.

- Chris Mansell

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Louise Wakeling is a poet, teacher and rescue greyhound owner who has made a tree change from Sydney (though she still misses the sea and yum cha). She now lives in Gundungurra country in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, and these days teaches English to students online. In 2021 she was commissioned by Poetry Sydney to write poetry at Barangaroo, in collaboration with members of the public for the Vessels of Love weekend on Valentine's Day. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies, the most recent being Messages from the Embers: From Devastation to Hope (2020), a bushfire anthology. Her first novel, Saturn Return, probed the experiences of a young Australian woman in Thatcher's England. She is currently working on a second novel about coercive control and domestic violence in suburban Sydney and the Central Coast in the 1960s-70s. Off Limits is her fourth poetry collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Puncher and Wattmann
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1922571024
• ISBN 13: 9781922571021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne