Summary
‘Neilsen’s intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious and unerringly wry, these poems offer us forensically clear-eyed perspectives on subjects ranging from environmental degradation and the impending collapse of fragile ecosystems in the anthropoc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742589619 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742589618 |
| Author: | Philip Neilsen |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 100 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | UWAP Poetry |
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About The Author
Philip Neilsen
Philip Neilsen is a poet, author and editor who has published sixteen books. Wildlife of Berlin is his sixth collection of poetry. He teaches poetry & poetics at the University of Queensland and is adjunct professor of creative writing at QUT. His creative books have been translated into various languages including Chinese, German and Korean. His poetry has been included in prestigious anthologies such as: The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology (New York); The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry; Australian Poetry Since 1788 (University of NSW Press) and The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry – the first US anthology of Australian poetry. With the UK poet David Morley he co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing (2012). He is lead editor, with Professor Robert King and Professor Felicity Baker, of a scholarly book on creative arts in recovery from severe mental illness – Creative Arts in Counselling and Mental Health (SAGE: 2015). He has edited anthologies of Australian satirical verse for Penguin and UQP and been a member of the Literature Board. His awards include an Australian Notable Book Award and a Writers Fellowship from the Australia Council.
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