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Fishing for lightning / Sarah Holland-Batt.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.H653 F57 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holland-Batt, Sarah, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--History and criticism.
- Poetry.
- Australian poetry--History and criticism.
- Australian poetry.
- Genre:
- essays.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, QLD : UQP, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's celebrated columns on contemporary Australian poetry. In fifty illuminating and lively short essays on fifty poets, Holland-Batt offers a masterclass in how to read and love poetry, opening up the music of language, form, and poetic technique in her casual and conversational yet deeply intelligent style"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: World Poetry Day: On Judith Beveridge
- Concrete Poetry: On Stuart Cooke
- Poetry and Science: On Tricia Dearborn
- The Ode: On Jill Jones
- Incongruous Pleasures: On Aidan Coleman
- The Elegy: On Brendan Ryan
- The New Confessionalism: On Omar Sakr
- The Sonnet: On Judith Bishop
- The Movement of Metaphor: On Anthony Lawrence
- The Villanelle: On Sarah Day
- The Long Poem: On Peter Boyle
- A Poem for Winter: On Tracy Ryan
- The Poem's Speaker: On Prithvi Varatharajan
- Mathematics and Constraint: On Jordie Albiston
- A History of Place: On Lisa Gorton
- Indigenous Poetry: On Fire Front
- The Sonnet Sequence: On Keri Glastonbury
- The Readymade: On Toby Fitch
- Decoding Difficulty: On LK Holt
- Animal Language: On Siobhan Hodge
- The Sestina: On Michael Farrell
- The Fragment: On Antigone Kefala
- Influence and Conversation: On Caitlin Maling
- Sound and Meter: On Felicity Plunkett
- Questions of Style: On Simon West
- Repetition and Rhetoric: On Michael Sharkey
- Poetry and Witness: On Jennifer Harrison
- Symbolism: On Graeme Miles
- The Pantoum: On Emma Lew
- The Line: On Robert Adamson
- The Anagram: On Jaya Savige
- The Epistle: On Charmaine Papertalk Green
- The Verse Novel: On Luke Best
- Lyric Address: On Louise Gliick
- Ekphrasis: On Laurie Duggan
- The Prose Poem: On Maria Takolander
- Poetry and Landscape: On Martin Johnston
- Formal Verse: On Stephen Edgar
- The Epic: On II.O.
- Myth and Religion: On Norman Erikson Pasaribu
- The Verse Biography: On John A Scott
- Reclaiming History: On Jeanine Leane
- The Haiku: On Beverley Farmer
- The Political Poem: On Barry Hill
- The Love Poem: On Adrienne Eberhard
- The Mystery of Language: On Meredith Wattison
- Poetry and Memory: On Todd Turner
- The Satirical Impulse: On Ed Wright
- Travel Poetry: On Rebecca Edwards
- Poetry and Choreography: On Jessica L Wilkinson.
- Notes:
- "The spark of poetry"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references 9pages 278-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780702263378
- 0702263370
- OCLC:
- 1281601156
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