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Letters from the Periphery
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The forty-eight poems that comprise Letters from the Periphery, Alex Skovron's seventh book-length collection, are populated by a variety of voices speaking across many settings. From 1960s Sydney to the cafes of today's Melbourne, from the Trojan War and Byzantine Aleppo to the dark forest of Dante's Inferno, from eighteenth-century Lisbon to Vienna at the turn of the twentieth, from the American Civil War to warfronts of our time, and of the future.
A richly diverse collection, this book also marks Skovron's return to the longer poem. Notably, the title-sequence features a mysterious stalker versed in philosophy; the suite The Light We Convert is grounded in the world of nineteenth-century music; and the poet's translation of the opening Canto from The Divine Comedy.
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ISBN: 9781925780833
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 116
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About the Author
Alex Skovron is the author of six previous collections, most recently Towards the Equator: New & Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014), short-listed for the prime Minister's Literary Awards. His other books include a prose novella The Poet (2005), joint winner of the FAW Christina Stead Award for Fiction and a collection of short stories, The Man Who Took to His Bed (2017). Alex's work has been translated into several languages. He lives in Melbourne.
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