Antigone Kefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for the intensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small number of poems she has published, each carefully worked, each magical or menacing in its effects. Fragments is her first collection of new poems in almost twenty years, since the publication of New and Selected Poems in 1998, and possibly her last. It follows her prose work Sydney Journals (Giramondo, 2008) of which one critic wrote, 'Kefala can render the music of the moment so perfectly, she leaves one almost singing with the pleasure of it'. This skill in capturing the moment is just as evident in Fragments, though the territory is often darker now, as the poet patrols the liminal spaces between life and death, alert to the energies which lie in wait there. And such energies!
By:
Antigone Kefala Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 150mm,
ISBN:9781925336191 ISBN 10: 1925336190 Pages: 96 Publication Date:01 September 2016 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
