Prickly Moses

Poems

Simon West

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English

Princeton University Pres
20 October 2023

Poetry

Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

An uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West’s poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new collection, the Australian poet and Italianist delights in the transforming and endlessly varied powers of naming and speaking. West’s intensely regional focus stands in dialogue with Europe and antiquity. Landscapes reveal the tangle of their historical dimensions, as the rivers of both the Goulburn Valley in southeastern Australia and the Po Valley in northern Italy merge and flow into the wider currents of the Southern Ocean. Again and again, language and the senses throw themselves into the nameless riot of the world, from eucalypts and clouds to a medieval bell tower and the sounds a pencil makes as it crosses a page.

'Words, in Simon West’s poems, are so lovingly proffered in all their materiality that we rejoice in the further revelations of meaning and import. All poetry is local, and West situates us in locales that are rich in resonance — whether Australia or Italy or some region of the mind where we become part of a wider world.'— Paul Kane, author of A Passing Bell: Ghazals for Tina

By: Simon West
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691250595
ISBN 10: 0691250596
Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Pages: 72
Publication Date: 20 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon West is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Carol and Ahoy and The Ladder, which was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He is also the author of Dear Muses? Essays in Poetry and the editor and translator of The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews for Prickly Moses: Poems

"""West finds inspiration for his gorgeously detailed poems in the figures and likenesses of nature: a eucalyptus twists ‘like wrist joints in an artist’s portfolio,’ new growth catches ‘the light like a crowd / of scimitars in the breeze.’ The Australian poet’s formally engaged, often rhyming verse—sonnets, couplets—reveals a mind nurtured in a Mediterranean climate of classicism.""---David Woo, Literary Hub ""It is a handsome book in a distinguished series.""---Martin Duwell, Australian Poetry Review"