He seems to start writing a poem and then becomes shocked, stunned, by a word he's just put down, unable to go past it, as if discovering the letters for the first time, as if the poem has somehow written him. Kirsten Krauth, The Australian Jam Sticky Vision is the successor to Luke Beesleys highly-regarded third book of poetry, New Works on Paper, published by Giramondo in 2013. The poems in this collection blend observation, memory and anecdote with particular interest in American film, rock music, visual arts and poetry, and the way they inhabit the poets everyday life in contemporary Melbourne. They create an uncanny universe, which hovers somewhere between the real world and that of the poets imagination, characterised by surprising encounters and fleeting details rendered with the utmost clarity, full of intimate disclosures and yet somehow public in its openness, where everything is animated by liveliness objects, sensations, colours, even words as they appear on the page. As one critic has noted, Beesleys books make for very healthy reading. Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, the menu not overly processed no greasy late-night noir. As another has written, his windows open out to an other view, wholly within our grasp but difficult to articulate.
By:
Luke Beesley Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 150mm,
Weight: 150g ISBN:9781922146847 ISBN 10: 1922146846 Pages: 96 Publication Date:01 June 2015 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
