Summary
Martin Harrison (1949-2014) prepared and delivered this final manuscript at the end of a prolific creative life. With the vulnerability of a lover, the poet peels back one cover of truth after another; reckless for the evidence of the senses, he sifts light, sound and smell. Poems like the skin of a world: breathing, walking, touching. Martin Harrison’s culminating poetic achievement is a crossing over, stylistically, thematically, emotionally. Mapping the tragic chiasmus of love and death…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742586861 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742586864 |
| Author: | Martin Harrison |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Martin Harrison
Martin Harrison was an Australian poet and essayist. He started in Australia at the ABC as a producer and broadcaster in poetry, drama, criticism and sound-work. For a number of years Martin taught writing and sound studies at the University of Technology Sydney. The hundreds of students he mentored into successful writing careers constitute part of his legacy. As well as poetry Martin’s work included radiophonic composition, literary reviews and critical essays, with articles appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald, Times Literary Supplement and Australian Book Review. He was awarded an Australia Council Established Writers Fellowship 2003-2004 and won the Wesley Michel Wright prize for poetry in 2002. Martin passed away in September 2014.
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