The Body in Time/Nervous ArcsDIANE FAHEY/JORDIE ALBISTON
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| Survivor and witness, I walk the often-turned earth of this place where cypress and eucalypt spring up as they can, or will, against horizons of glass-skinned skyscrapers, lobelia dream-folds of mountain Diane Fahey In this her fifth collection, Diane Fahey explores diverse settings in Venice, Scotland and Australia. She is also the inner traveller, revisiting sites of trauma and hard-won knowledge in youth and adult life. The core of the book is a kind of reckoning in which the body itself, layered with memories, becomes the ultimate focus. Diane Fahey pieces together a world - with integrity and incomparable delicacy - much as the fragile light of a star defines a universe. - Annie Greet |
in uncomfortable ears on modern laps a chorus of noisy loves and fears proceeding from a uterine - Jordie Albiston Jordie Albiston's first collection of poetry documents the complex world of music and memory, history and art, from the perspectives of such figures as Frida Kahlo, Emily Dickinson, the witches of Salem, Ahab and Frankenstein. Voicing the unspoken languages of the body, these poems negotiate the corporeal narratives of anorexia, abortion, conception and desire with an elegant tension between content and form. Jordie Albiston writes with sharp intelligence, lyrical grace, and moral passion. A name to watch for. - Janette Turner Hospital |
Two poets known for delving into history and myth turn their attention to inner spaces, to time and the body’s arcs. Jordie Albiston voices the unspoken languages of the body unearthing the complexity of memory, of desire and the art of the corporeal. Diane Fahey revisits the travelling body as it inhales memories of architecture and landscape. Scouring the body and the land for mines of trauma and of knowledge hard-won.
Nervous Arcs was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for 1996
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