Handshake

Name: Handshake
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781922571328
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By Claire Albrecht

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Handshake by Claire Albrecht is a fusion of conceptual photography and incisive poetry that explores the complex interplay of environment, desire, isolation, and fear. Set against the background of the catastrophic East Australian bushfires of 2019-20 and the global COVID-19 pandemic, this work delves into personal and public anxieties. It artfully intertwines the earthly and the metaphysical in a poignant grounding exercise to confront panic and seek reality.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Handshake

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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary arts and culture, especially those drawn to poetry that intersects with environmental and emotional themes. Suitable for an audience engaged with pandemic and climate crisis reflections through a creative lens.

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A logical continuation from Albrecht's debut chapbook pinky swear, handshake is a space of anxious play. It combines conceptual photography with sharp and disarming poetry, investigating personal and public tensions between environment, desire, isolation and fear in the wake of the devastating East Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Intertwining the earth(l)y material with the metaphysical, handshake grasps onto what is 'real' in a grounding exercise against panic.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922571328

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 83

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Arts & Culture Claire Albrecht Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Claire Albrecht is a poet, editor and curator from Mulubinba (Newcastle) NSW. She was shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2021, and has been featured in a number of anthologies including Best of Australian Poems Vol. 1.