A Foul Wind
$24.28
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2023
Summary
In A Dictionary of the English Language, Dr Johnson defines ‘foul’ as ‘full of gross humours.’ It can also mean discoloured, obscene, and profane. Yet the phrase ‘a foul wind’ is specifically nautical: it’s a wind that blows against the direction you want to go - that sends you off-course and into misadventure.
Isn’t that poetry, though, pushing back against your intention and will? In this new collection, Justin Clemens finds himself lost, wrecked, and washed up on the isle …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780648848172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0648848175 |
| Author: | Justin Clemens |
| Publisher: | Hunter Publishers |
| Imprint: | Hunter Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 122g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 218mm x 138mm |
| Series: | Hunter Contemporary Australian Poets |
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About The Author
Justin Clemens
Justin Clemens is one of Australia’s best known writers and the author of many books about art, philosophy, and poetry, including Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy, Barron Field in New South Wales: the Poetics of Terra Nullius, Villain, Black River, and The Mundiad, which was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Melbourne.
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