Neighbours In A Thicket
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: DJ: Small tears repaired with tapes, in mylar. Pages: Light foxing on prelims. Markings: Bookseller stamp on fep. Binding remains tight. Clean copy.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Neighbours in a Thicket, a landmark poetry collection that announces David Malouf's singular gift for rendering the ordinary world luminous and strange. Drawing on landscapes both intensely local — the subtropical heat and dense bush of Queensland — and cosmopolitan, spanning Italy and Europe, Malouf crafts poems that chart the intricate, sometimes thorny relationships between self and place, between the individual and the communities that surround and define them. Malouf's verse is notable for its crystalline precision and lyrical restraint, each line weighted with an almost painterly attention to image and sensation. Neighbours in a Thicket established him as a poet of rare emotional intelligence, anticipating the themes of memory, belonging, and cultural identity that would later permeate his celebrated novels. For readers who cherish poetry that rewards slow, careful attention, this collection poses an enduring question: how well do we ever truly know the thicket of lives pressing in around our own?
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: DJ: Small tears repaired with tapes, in mylar. Pages: Light foxing on prelims. Markings: Bookseller stamp on fep. Binding remains tight. Clean copy.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Neighbours in a Thicket, a landmark poetry collection that announces David Malouf's singular gift for rendering the ordinary world luminous and strange. Drawing on landscapes both intensely local — the subtropical heat and dense bush of Queensland — and cosmopolitan, spanning Italy and Europe, Malouf crafts poems that chart the intricate, sometimes thorny relationships between self and place, between the individual and the communities that surround and define them. Malouf's verse is notable for its crystalline precision and lyrical restraint, each line weighted with an almost painterly attention to image and sensation. Neighbours in a Thicket established him as a poet of rare emotional intelligence, anticipating the themes of memory, belonging, and cultural identity that would later permeate his celebrated novels. For readers who cherish poetry that rewards slow, careful attention, this collection poses an enduring question: how well do we ever truly know the thicket of lives pressing in around our own?