Circadia
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Circadia
A dazzling new poetry collection from award-winning poet Judith Bishop, a conclusion to her trilogy focused on time.
Perched on a tablecloth with glasses for a summer drink – life, on its haunches like a kitten, thoughtful. Extending a paw – What happens if?
Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grieve the daily devastations of war, extinction, illness, death, and disconnection, yet find their way back into clearings transfigured by the energies of art, children, and the sheer incandescence of existence.
These fiercely empathetic poems range deep into the woods of present, past and future time. With visionary imagination and rapt musicality, this concluding volume in Bishop's award-winning trilogy on time sings in the mind long after reading.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780702268335
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 April 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 99g
Pages: 112
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About the Author
Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in the United States and Britain. Her poems have won a number of awards, including the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets University prize and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. She is the author of two collections- Event (Salt Publishing, 2007), which won the FAW Anne Elder award and was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize; and Interval (UQP, 2018), which won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards - Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and was a finalist in the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature - Best Writing Award. She is also the author of three chapbooks- Alice Missing in Wonderland and other poems (Picaro Press, 2008), Aftermarks (Vagabond Press, 2012) and Here Hear (Gazebo Books, 2022). Her translations from French (Philippe Jaccottet, Gerard Mace) have been published in Australian and international journals. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne, an MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Cambridge. She lives with her family in Melbourne.
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