The Body in Time / Nervous Arcs
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.
1995 | ISBN 9781875559374 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 239 pp
Awards
Winner Mary Gilmore Award for Nervous Arcs[9], 1996
Runner-up FAW Anne Elder Award for Nervous Arcs, 1996
shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Award, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Nervous Arcs, 1996
Reviews
‘Jordie Albiston writes with sharp intelligence, lyrical grace and moral passion.’
— Janette Turner Hospital
‘Diane Fahey pieces together a world – with integrity and incomparable delicacy – much as a fragile light of a star defines a universe.’
—Annie Grett
Table of Contents
NERVOUS ARCS
Jordie Albiston
THE BODY IN TIME
Diane Fahey