Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected

Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Marcella Polain

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 154


A full-length book of new poems by Marcella Polain opens this volume and provides its overall title. Two further sections select generously from her earlier two books, with some revisions. Her lines in those earlier books dance on the page, always seeking a place to leap, and unexpected trajectories. Energy of rhythm and assurance of connection weave a remarkably wide territory of emotional understanding. The setting is Perth and its wheat-belt inland; the poems engage personally with the matters of childhood, adulthood and family, and with the girl immigrant's awareness of 'the salt of distant throats'. Polain's new poems focus her essential elan and fierce intelligence on the solitary psyche, summoning grief and fear in a place of stillness and vulnerability. This strikingly immediate poetry is probably her most searching and complex yet. Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the 2009 Judith Wright Poetry Prize in the A.C.T Awards.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Marcella Polain

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 154


A full-length book of new poems by Marcella Polain opens this volume and provides its overall title. Two further sections select generously from her earlier two books, with some revisions. Her lines in those earlier books dance on the page, always seeking a place to leap, and unexpected trajectories. Energy of rhythm and assurance of connection weave a remarkably wide territory of emotional understanding. The setting is Perth and its wheat-belt inland; the poems engage personally with the matters of childhood, adulthood and family, and with the girl immigrant's awareness of 'the salt of distant throats'. Polain's new poems focus her essential elan and fierce intelligence on the solitary psyche, summoning grief and fear in a place of stillness and vulnerability. This strikingly immediate poetry is probably her most searching and complex yet. Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the 2009 Judith Wright Poetry Prize in the A.C.T Awards.