Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror - Softcover

Shepherdson, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702235695 ISBN 13: 9780702235696

Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 2006

Synopsis

No. 08every word we ever said to each otherlaid side by side on the white grasseach tied with a single strand of your black hairSweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror is an extended elegy and memorial for the poet’s mother. Brief, epigrammic aphorisms are contrasted with longer poems, some of which are about the commonplace aspects of a lived life: old shoes, the family stove, handwritten letters, and some of which move resolutely into elegiac record. ‘This moving and infinitely sustained sequence demonstrates a powerful talent and a masterful command of the large-scale architecture of a long sequence.’THOMAS SHAPCOTT‘Shepherdson’s virtuosic interplay is evident in nearly every line and in the way the poems build and gather momentum and dynamic tension. The poet uses language to keep perception and the unutterable alive.’JUDITH BEVERIDGE

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Synopsis

"Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror" is an extended elegy and memorial for the poet's mother. Brief, epigrammic aphorisms are contrasted with longer poems, some of which are about the commonplace aspects of a lived life: old shoes, the family stove, handwritten letters, and some of which move resolutely into elegiac record.Winner of the prestigious 'Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize' 2005, this volume confirms Shepherdson's title as one of Australian poetry's finest emerging talents.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702235695
• ISBN 13: 9780702235696
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96