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Element

the atomic weight and radius of love
By Jordie Albiston
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Element by Jordie Albiston explores love through the lens of chemistry, using atomic theory as a structural framework. The poems examine love's foundations, emotions, and complexities, mapping the connection between two people as if analysing elements and compounds.
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*Shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal*

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal

Using chemistry as an indexing trope, Jordie Albiston tabulates the human predicament of love: its foundations and fundamentals, its configuration of emotions, its recurring properties, and its inherent assumption of many as yet unknown elements to occur.

These poems range across space and time, all the while adhering to the formal constraints of atomic theory. The states and structures of being are scrutinised according to love's capacity for passion and fissure, blessing and debt, and a compound body of two is progressively mapped onto the page.

Albiston's poetry cohesively resettles readers well beyond the usual linguistic boundaries, and by these means the poems sharply renew possibilities of enunciation. - Dan Disney, Westerly

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925780598

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 70

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