Who Was by Alex Quel

Name: Who Was by Alex Quel
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781922571335
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Who Was by Alex Quel explores the essence of poetic creativity through the voices of heteronyms, delving into themes of mortality, love, and the challenges of mourning. The poems confront death and failure with dense, concentrated language, seeking to express absence and loss beyond personal narrative.
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Ideal for readers interested in experimental poetry, philosophical reflections on language, and themes of mortality and loss within the arts and culture genre.

Description

Who Was by Alex Quel questions the very basis of poetic creativity. Here, language speaks in the voices of heteronyms who write of mortality and love in the tense, concentrated form that goes as far as poetry has any right to reach.

This is a book about death and failure; about the impossibility of mourning and writing about mourning. Mortality and annihilation lie at the heart of these dense and concise traces between empty margins. They are the writings of absence and loss that allow language to speak.

'The poem less as one's story than something other than oneself, possessing an independent beauty or trace of life's varied troubles.'

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922571335

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Peter Boyle
Edited by MTC Cronin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 94

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry from Spanish and French. His most recent collection is Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings (Vagabond Press, 2021). In 2020 his book Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness won the New South Wales Premier's Award for Poetry.

MTC Cronin has published over twenty books (poetry, prose poems and essays), a number of which have appeared in translation. She has also published jointly-written collections with poet/translator, Peter Boyle and poet/librettist, Maria Zajkowski.