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Trigger Warning
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From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry collection yet.
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets— from Sylvia Plath to Anne Carson—whose dramatised confessions trigger Takolander's own.
The second part remains focused on the domestic, while redeeming that scene of trauma through a reinventing wit. The final section of this extraordinary book turns its attention outside, playing with poetry itself in order to confront the Anthropocene and the final frontier of death.
This is poetry that balances ruthlessness and lyrical beauty; poetry alive to its time and audience; poetry not to be missed.
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Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander is lauded for its fierce intelligence and its ability to unsettle and ignite readers. The poems tackle challenging topics such as domestic violence and the uncertain future with a commitment to truth. Takolander's work is noted for its wit, irony, and intellectual force, as it navigates and gives meaning to a world filled with chaos.
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ISBN: 9780702263088
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 July 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 258.0mm
Weight: 116g
Pages: 112
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About the Author
Maria Takolander was born in Melbourne in 1973 to Finnish parents. She is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Ghostly Subjects (Salt, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. Her poetry appeared regularly in The Best Australian Poems and The Best Australian Poetry, and it has been widely anthologised nationally and internationally, including in Thirty Australian Poets (UQP, 2011). A program about Maria's poetry aired on Radio National in 2015, and she has performed her poetry on ABC TV and at numerous festivals, including the 2017 Medellin International Poetry Festival in Colombia. She won the inaugural Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and her short-story collection The Double (Text, 2013) was shortlisted for The Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award. Maria's words can also be found on bronze plaques in the Geelong CBD and at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
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