{"product_id":"fragments-by-antigone-kefala-9781925336191","title":"Fragments","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntigone Kefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for the intensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small number of poems she has published, each carefully worked, each magical or menacing in its effects. \u003cem\u003eFragments\u003c\/em\u003e is her first collection of new poems in almost twenty years, since the publication of \u003cem\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e in 1998, and possibly her last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt follows her prose work \u003cem\u003eSydney Journals\u003c\/em\u003e (Giramondo, 2008) of which one critic wrote, 'Kefala can render the music of the moment so perfectly, she leaves one almost singing with the pleasure of it'. This skill in capturing the moment is just as evident in \u003cem\u003eFragments\u003c\/em\u003e, though the territory is often darker now, as the poet patrols the liminal spaces between life and death, alert to the energies which lie in wait there. And such energies!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Up, in the blue depth \/ a bird cut with its wings \/ the light \/ such silk, that fell \/ and rose, heavily, \/ singing through the air.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAntigone Kefala has written four works of fiction, including \u003cem\u003eThe First Journey\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Island\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSummer Visit\u003c\/em\u003e, and four poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Alien\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThirsty Weather\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEuropean Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAbsence: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e as well as the non-fiction work \u003cem\u003eSydney Journals\u003c\/em\u003e. Born in Romania of Greek parents, she lived in Greece and New Zealand before coming to Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424173539564,"sku":"9781925336191","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925336191.jpg?v=1774769020","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fragments-by-antigone-kefala-9781925336191","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}