Viva the Real

Name: Viva the Real
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780702260100
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By Jill Jones

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Viva the Real by Jill Jones is an exploration through poetry that delves into the intricate dynamic between reality and illusion within our surroundings. Covering themes of perception and environment, the author weaves a tapestry of vivid imagery and insightful reflections, creating a captivating journey through the nuances of contemporary existence. This collection invites readers to contemplate the essence of reality in a world steeped in art and culture.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring the intersections of language, reality, and perception through a poetic lens. It offers a rich tapestry of imagery and thought-provoking themes that delve into the complexities of existence, culture, and the everyday world. Perfect for those who appreciate a nuanced and artistic exploration of life's vivid realities.

An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet.

An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet.

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An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet.

Exploring body and place in ways that are expansive, intimate and playful, Viva the Real celebrates resilience and continuity in everyday life. Jones' poems offer us a strong, vital voice, charged with her effortlessly rhythmic and resonant lyricism. This collection is both haunted and visceral, and will resonate long after reading.

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Viva the Real by Jill Jones has been praised for its intelligent, wise, and idiosyncratic poetry that delights in quirky combinations and inventive segues. Gail Jones highlights its originality and vivacity, while David McCooey describes the collection as both comic and elegiac, redefining ordinary experiences with a compelling new reality.

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ISBN: 9780702260100

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: University of Queensland Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 122g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Jill Jones was born in Sydney and has lived in Adelaide since 2008. She has published ten full-length poetry books and a number of chapbooks, including The Beautiful Anxiety, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry in 2015, and Breaking the Days, which won the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2017. She has also won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize and the Mary Gilmore Award. Her work is published widely in Australian and international anthologies, magazines and periodicals, and has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Czech, Macedonian and Spanish. She has worked as a film reviewer, journalist, book editor and arts administrator. In 2014 she was poet-in-residence at Stockholm University. She currently teaches at the University of Adelaide where she is also a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.

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