Summary
Borrowing from the title of his Bruce Dawe prize-winning poem, Steve Armstrong’s wonderful first collection is ‘a cracked and weathered prayer’. These are questing, generous poems, filled with grace and vulnerability, and reading them is like taking a walk through a magical and yet familiar landscape, a walk haunted by memory, grief, longing and hope. Highly recommended. Lisa Brockwell
The intimate territory Armstrong walks attends to the wider world-in particular, wild co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742589855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742589855 |
| Author: | Steve Armstrong |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 100 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
| Series: | UWAP Poetry |
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Steve Armstrong
Steve Armstrong lives in Newcastle, where he runs his own practice as as a counsellor/coach, when he’s not writing. He won the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize 2015 and has shortlisted for other major prizes, including the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize, Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. His poems can be found in Notes for Translators, 2012 (ASM); Australian Love Poems, 2013 (Inkerman & Blunt); A Slow Combusting Hymn: Poetry from and about Newcastle and the Hunter Region, 2014 (ASM); and Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets Respond to Ovid, 2017 (Recent Work Press).
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