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Letters from the Periphery

Alex Skovron

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English
Puncher and Wattmann
01 October 2021
The forty-eight poems that comprise Letters from the Periphery, Alex Skovron's seventh book-length collection, are populated by a variety of voices speaking across many settings - from 1960s Sydney to the cafs of today's Melbourne, from the Trojan War and Byzantine Aleppo to the dark forest of Dante's Inferno, from eighteenth-century Lisbon to Vienna at the turn of the twentieth, from the American Civil War to warfronts of our time, and of the future. A richly diverse collection, this book also marks Skovron's return to the longer poem - notably the title-sequence, featuring a mysterious stalker versed in philosophy; the suite The Light We Convert, grounded in the world of nineteenth-century music; and the poet's translation of the opening Canto from The Divine Comedy.
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Imprint:   Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 148mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   180g
ISBN:   9781925780833
ISBN 10:   192578083X
Pages:   116
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alex Skovron is the author of six previous collections, most recently Towards the Equator: New & Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014), short-listed for the prime Minister's Literary Awards. His other books include a prose novella The Poet (2005), joint winner of the FAW Christina Stead Award for Fiction and a collection of short stories, The Man Who Took to His Bed (2017). Alex's work has been translated into several languages. He lives in Melbourne.

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