A Bone Flute: Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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From the quiet literary culture of 1970s Canberra emerges A Bone Flute, a collection of poems by Phillip Martin that resonates with the spare, meditative quality of its striking title — an instrument carved from mortality itself. Published by the Australian National University Press in 1974, this volume presents a carefully wrought body of verse that draws on classical learning, personal introspection, and the textures of the natural world, situating Martin firmly within the tradition of mid-twentieth-century Australian academic poetry. Martin's work is distinguished by its formal precision and its quiet intellectual intensity, characteristics that align him with a generation of Australian poets who sought to marry European literary traditions with a distinctly Southern Hemisphere sensibility. A Bone Flute rewards the patient reader with layered imagery and a contemplative voice that never overreaches, leaving one to wonder what music, exactly, can be coaxed from the most elemental of materials.
Author: Phillip Martin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Australian National University Press
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
From the quiet literary culture of 1970s Canberra emerges A Bone Flute, a collection of poems by Phillip Martin that resonates with the spare, meditative quality of its striking title — an instrument carved from mortality itself. Published by the Australian National University Press in 1974, this volume presents a carefully wrought body of verse that draws on classical learning, personal introspection, and the textures of the natural world, situating Martin firmly within the tradition of mid-twentieth-century Australian academic poetry. Martin's work is distinguished by its formal precision and its quiet intellectual intensity, characteristics that align him with a generation of Australian poets who sought to marry European literary traditions with a distinctly Southern Hemisphere sensibility. A Bone Flute rewards the patient reader with layered imagery and a contemplative voice that never overreaches, leaving one to wonder what music, exactly, can be coaxed from the most elemental of materials.