The Diwan of Nawid

Mal McKimmie

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Puncher and Wattmann
01 February 2024

Poetry

'The Diwan of Nawid is like nothing else in Australian poetry - a spiritual text of sublime beauty in which we follow the struggles, questionings, and exhortations of Nawid, a character you will come to love for the way in which he lays before us his intense search for inviolable truths. Nawid is an 'everyman' but with one remarkable difference - he is a first-rate poet whose work contains the devotion and open-minded sagacity of a modern-day Kabir.'

Judith Beveridge

'Sometimes a new voice springs from a poet. It's not quite the poet's own (although it is), and it's not quite another's voice (although it is). The Diwan of Nawid is a memorable collection of poems in such a voice: tender, witty, puzzled, consoling. It is unique in Australian poetry.'

Kevin Hart

Praise for At the Foot of the Mountain

'... a wonder of compression and transformation ... a book with a rare depth of humanity and spirit that bears witness to its writer's fearless perceptiveness, and which always carries itself with compassion and wit.'

Graeme Miles

'... innovative, intelligently creative, almost fearless.'

Jennifer Harrison, Australian Book Review

Praise for The Brokenness Sonnets I-III & Other Poems
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*The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2012
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'Love and joy are at the centre of McKimmie's world ... we should take some time with his works, because there are parts of them that are necessarily beyond their creator

and there can be no higher praise.'

Toby Davidson, Mascara Literary Review

By: Mal McKimmie
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 115g
ISBN: 9781922571861
ISBN 10: 1922571865
Pages: 86
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mal McKimmie is the author of 3 previous poetry collections, the most recent being At the Foot of the Mountain (Puncher & Wattmann, 2021). His second book, The Brokenness Sonnet I-III & Other Poems (Five Islands Press, 2011), won the Age Poetry Book of the Year award in 2012. Poems from his first book, Poetileptic (Five Islands, 2005), were featured in a dedicated broadcast on 'Poetica', on ABC Radio National. He has worked as a tutor, mentor, editor, and event coordinator, and has lobbied in numerous ways for equality, inclusion and representation for Australian poets. McKimmie was born in Perth, Western Australia, where he wrote his first published poems. He has lived in Victoria since 2004.

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The Diwan of Nawid

Mal McKimmie

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