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This collection will appeal to readers who enjoy contemporary poetry rich with thoughtful imagery and a blend of personal and universal themes.
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Even the titles thrum, so that the index reads like a suite of small poems. Kathryn Lomer's is a house with many rooms, Wunderkammers all, filled with curious objects drawn from the worlds of art, science, nature, love, life, death... everything.
Supple lines and sensitive rhythms make surprising conjunctions, often leading us from the smallest detail of a beloved's body to an erotics of the cosmos. Lomer's music shows us what it means to live a life of poetry.
Judges' comments, 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award
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ISBN: 9781922571700
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 100
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About the Author
After Life is Kathryn Lomer's fourth poetry collection. Her previous poetry books were Extraction of Arrows, which won the Anne Elder Award for a first collection of poetry; Two Kinds of Silence, which won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's Awards; and Night Writing. She has also published a novel, The god in the ink, three award-winning young adult novels The Spare Room, What Now, Tilda B? and Talk Under Water; plus a collection of short fiction, Camera obscura. Kathryn also has an as yet unpublished short story collection, The Big Blue, shortlisted in the 2022 Tasmanian Book Prizes.
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