{"product_id":"sly-mongoose-by-ken-bolton-9781921450303","title":"Sly Mongoose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSly Mongoose\u003c\/em\u003e the author deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s and today. A quartet of poems treats a single locale and time-frame from the point of view of an 'ordinary punter', a beaver, a worried mother and a cyclist. There is a sequence drawn from a diary of travel through an imaginary Africa in the 1970s, each entry partly structured around a buried pun or near-pun. A further pair of poems deals with after-echoes, among his friends, of the passing of John Forbes. So there you go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNobody in Australia is writing quite like Ken Bolton...working a relativist's sceptical, provisional territory...(a) thinking against thought\u003c\/em\u003e. - J.S. Harry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA rare instance of contemporary Australian poetry in the mode of literary and cultural criticism\u003c\/em\u003e. - David McCooey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA gay, light-hearted bastard, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smeared, grinning cheerfully at the wheel of his 1958 Jaguar D-type, El Cid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Sydney in 1949, he works at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide and edits Little Esther books. Bolton has published a good deal of art criticism, some of it collected in \u003cem\u003eArt Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia). He edited \u003cem\u003eHomage To John Forbes\u003c\/em\u003e and wrote the monograph \u003cem\u003eMichelle Nikou\u003c\/em\u003e. He edited the magazines \u003cem\u003eMagic Sam\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOtis Rush\u003c\/em\u003e and has published numerous books of poetry. Wakefield Press published \u003cem\u003eThe Circus\u003c\/em\u003e in 2010 and Vagabond Press \u003cem\u003eA Whistled Bit Of Bop\u003c\/em\u003e. Earlier titles include \u003cem\u003eAt The Flash And At The Baci\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUntimely Meditations\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598290141420,"sku":"9781921450303","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e51216b6104978d484c2623f8b477bc9.jpg?v=1778026453","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sly-mongoose-by-ken-bolton-9781921450303","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}