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Man Wolf Man
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This collection will appeal to readers with an interest in contemporary poetry, especially those who appreciate richly crafted language and explorations of darker themes through a lyrical lens.
L. K. Holt's poems are stories, and they are also pure lyric. This collection is winner of the NSW Premier's Awards 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize.
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L K Holt's poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half-rhyme (and quarter-rhyme) and turns found images of this world into blazon.
She explores some dark matters— with homages to Goya, through the eyes of his mistress, and to Donne. She has a particular touch with the sensory strangeness in states of extremity; yet the giftedness of life breaks into vision in Holt's poetry with lightness. There is unblinking unamazement at violence; and a lively vein of the erotic.
Both have a part in the carved meditations of two monologues at the book's centre, 'Unfinished Confession' and 'Long Sonnets of Leocadia'. Their scope of knowledge and understanding, with flourishing irony in the one and a just-smiling humanity in the other, seems effortlessly summoned.
Man Wolf Man was awarded the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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ISBN: 9780977578771
Publisher: John Leonard Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 December 2007
Country: Australia
Imprint: John Leonard Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 6.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 134g
Pages: 68
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