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Alogopoiesis
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This title will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry that challenges traditional forms and addresses difficult, often hidden social issues with emotional depth and innovative style.
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Alogopoiesis is a fusion of the terms alogia, meaning a condition of reduced or absent speech, and poiesis, which means making. Therefore, Alogopoiesis forges a poetics of the unstated, creating meanings from what is not there.
The poems in this book explore experiences of domestic violence, queer heartbreak, and mental illness, among other topics that are often hushed up or hard to voice. Surreal symbolism interweaves with bare personal accounts, combining prose poetry with flash fiction and lyric verse.
Sequences of erasure, fragmentation, and revision utilise gaps and omissions as sites of significance. The book as a whole forms a macro-poem in which rhythms of repetition and variation continually reconfigure the parts that form the whole.
The result is a speaking of silence through form acting as content, thus raising awareness of issues that deserve greater attention.
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ISBN: 9780645633788
Publisher: Gazebo Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: Life Before Man
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 130.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 340
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About the Author
Amelia Walker is a poet who lives and works on Kaurna Yerta, also known as Adelaide, South Australia. She has published four poetry collections and three books of poetry writing activities for educational and community settings, based on her extensive work as a poet in schools and with arts-health projects. She currently lectures in courses on writing and literary studies at the University of South Australia, and is managing a research project that facilitates partnerships between poets in different countries to promote intercultural learning and connectivity through the arts.
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