The Grass is Greener Over Your Grave

Stuart Cooke

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Puncher and Wattmann
01 September 2023

Poetry

If Cooke's previous book, Lyre, urged us towards the 'more' of the more-than-human world, then The grass is greener over your grave returns to the 'human' end of that spectrum-though always with an eye to the porosity of the human and its immersion in waves of land, language, dream, and sea. Typically wide-ranging in form, this new collection develops Cooke's preoccupations with colonisation, ecology, metaphysics, and travel, while also acknowledging their heritage in the life and work of the late poet Martin Harrison.

'An extended elegy to a late friend and mentor, this is a culmination of the phenomenological and fiercely attentive place-based writing that has preoccupied Cooke's work to date. Traces of other local poetic influences

Phillip Hodgins, Jennifer Rankin and John Anderson

are visible and audible in Cooke's eventful treatment of the prose line and internal rhyme. There is, too, the emergence of a tougher, cooler voice; at times self-satirising, reminiscent of John Mateer's personae, Cooke brings forward a lyric character who treads these poems with ironic scrutiny, reflecting the author's ongoing work at the crossroads of non-Indigenous language and culture.'

Bonny Cassidy

By: Stuart Cooke
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 203mm,
ISBN: 9781922571755
ISBN 10: 192257175X
Pages: 90
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stuart Cooke grew up in Sydney and Hobart, and now lives in Brisbane, on Turrbal and Jagerah country, where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Griffith University. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, grants and prizes, and widely published as a poet, critic and translator. The grass is greener over your grave is his fourth collection of poems.

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The Grass is Greener Over Your Grave

Stuart Cooke

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