The Boy from the War Veterans' Home

Martin Langford

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Puncher and Wattmann
01 June 2022

Poetry

Recent books from Martin Langford have addressed specific themes: Ground explored the evolution of Australian spaces, while Eardrum focused on music. The Boy from the War Veterans' Home, however, represents a return to the miscellaneous sources from which collections are normally compiled. The title poem is about the difficult life of his father, but other pieces have been prompted by material as various as air dancers, lampreys and midges. Overall, however the collection is still pervaded by Langford's characteristic concerns: dismay at the ubiquity of triumphalist narratives

not least in our art-forms

and at the fragility of the spaces in which the subject is invited to step beyond them

together with an abiding fascination with the earth's brilliance and indifference. As well as the main body of poems, there are sections on the ambiguous bounty of story, on the writing life, and on the natural world

and a further supplement of Minims, his brief poems about music.

'One of the few contemporary Australian poets who can write with ease and conviction in the borderlands where poetry and philosophy enhance each other... There is no Australian poet more dedicated to his craft...'

Jan Owen

By: Martin Langford
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9781922571250
ISBN 10: 1922571253
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 01 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Langford is the author of The Human Project: New and Selected Poems (2009), Ground (2015) and Eardrum (2020). He is co-editor (with J. Beveridge, J. Johnson and D. Musgrave) of Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016), and editor of Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008 (2009). Since 2011, he has been the poetry reviewer for Meanjin.

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