Too Close for Comfort

Pip Smith

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Sydney University Press
01 September 2013

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Pip Smith's Too Close for Comfort, is the inaugural winner of the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest, a biennial prize for a book of poetry by an Australian female poet which deals in some way with Australian culture. This award (and future awards) has been made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of Helen Anne Bell, a former student at the University of Sydney. The inaugural award in 2013 drew a highly competitive field of entries, but the judges, Joanne Burns, Jill Jones and myself, felt that Pip Smith's poems were the ones which engaged most robustly and imaginatively with Australian life, concerns, and culture in the 21st century.

By: Pip Smith
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9781921364440
ISBN 10: 1921364440
Publication Date: 01 September 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Happy Christmas! (don't get tasered) Scrooge This season Go home australia your drunk!! Cartography Midnight Mass Etymology Now that's cricket Too close for comfort Broken train lines Comb jelly Marrickville cats How to reason with snakes An ode to the stupidity of sheep The little things Plum tree Biology Ghosts make good material The red disk Bikies Watertight Keeping it real with Kendrick Lamar On the 36th floor For Tim Punch lines Arrogant ghost Death metal Sleeper train HOWL, for Allen Ginsberg Acknowledgements

Reviews for Too Close for Comfort

‘Smith’s voice is anything but timid, and it’s when she modulates ‘difficult’ with a more restrained-but-fluent perspicacity that the collection really starts to build its force.’ -- Antonia Pont * Cordite Poetry Review *