{"product_id":"sun-music-by-judith-beveridge-9781925336887","title":"Sun Music","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER of the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudith Beveridge is one of Australia's most acclaimed poets, taught in high schools and universities, winner of the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards, a highly regarded critic, editor and teacher of poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSun Music\u003c\/em\u003e is a definitive edition of her best-known and most important poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSun Music\u003c\/em\u003e collects Beveridge's best poems published over a thirty-year period, from 1987 to 2017. She has selected the poems from her award-winning collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Domesticity of Giraffes, Accidental Grace, Wolf Notes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStorm and Honey\u003c\/em\u003e, and included 33 new poems which build on and enhance her previous work. Beveridge is an exacting poet, precise and controlled, and her formal discipline gives added intensity to her expression of emotion. The combination of clarity and dramatic force, involving a supple use of language which registers the ebb and flow of feeling, makes her poetry immediately appealing and accessible. As she notes in her introduction to this collection, 'My writing can be kaleidoscopic, often baroque, but I hope also grounded and focused...I am drawn to poetry that has rich texture, and by this, I mean poetry that is distinctly metaphorical, detailed, musically complex, but also clear.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A poet whose gentle and exacting touch and sure-poetic skills bear witness to a broad human vision, capable of expressing and engendering compassion, insight and grace.' \u003c\/em\u003eMichael Brennan, \u003cem\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead the rapturous review by Gregory Day in \u003c\/em\u003eThe Australian\u003cem\u003e - review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Filled with a plethora of living things—people, insects, animals, birds—these poems are vivid, insightful, and gorgeously poetic.' - \u003c\/strong\u003eAndrea Goldsmith, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e - Books of the Year 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Her poems are constructed from finely described details, most of which are tapped into place with simile or metaphor. The most memorable of them involve a rejection of cruelty, whether to humans or animals.' - \u003c\/strong\u003eGeoff Page, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e - Books of the Year 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Beveridge has a gift for finding ways to match the natural world in words.' - \u003c\/strong\u003eGregory Day, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e - Books of the Year 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432733556972,"sku":"9781925336887","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925336887.jpg?v=1774556729","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sun-music-by-judith-beveridge-9781925336887","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}