Phantom Limb

David Musgrave

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John Leonard Press
01 January 2010

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

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David Musgrave's poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual - with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in. Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly. Typically they move from the moment of observation to make transformative connections with emotional and imaginative states: the continual freshness of approach from one to another of these poems is a hallmark. Other poems meet human situations more immediately. The self, or some other, is substantiated with a generosity of feeling - and this becomes a startling quality within the strands of satire in some poems, notably 'The Baby Boomers'. Generosity also drives - as much as an elegant form does - 'Young Montaigne Goes Riding'. Those two extended poems are peaks in a book of exuberant curiosity. Phantom Limb was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with LK Holt's Patience, Mutiny and Petra White's The Simplified World. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Western Australian Premier's Poetry Book Award and for the John Bray Prize in the 2011 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

By: David Musgrave
Imprint: John Leonard Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9780980526998
ISBN 10: 098052699X
Pages: 68
Publication Date: 01 January 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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