Two Poets: Fremantle Poets 2

by Andrew Lansdown, Kevin Gillam, Lisa Gorton (Introduction)

Overview

Written in a variety of free and traditional forms—including haiku, tanka, choka, and villanelle—this exciting collection contains the work of two award-winning Western Australian poets, Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam. Dealing with a variety of subjects relating to nature, family, and the human condition, this compilation offers insight into the state of poetry in contemporary Western Australia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781921696602
Publisher:	Fremantle Press
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	Fremantle Poets , #2
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Andrew Lansdown is a poet and the author of several collections, including Birds in Mind, The Dispossessed, Far from Home, and Fontanelle. He is the recipient of numerous poetry awards, such as the Manly Fellowship of Australian Writers Poetry Award, the Trudy Graham Biennial Literary Award, and the Woorilla Poetry Prize. Kevin Gillam is the director of music at Christchurch Grammar School and a freelance cellist and orchestral conductor. He is the author of Other Gravities and Permitted to Fall and his poetry has been included in The Best Australian Poems 2008 and The Best Australian Poetry 2006. He is also the recipient of many poetry awards, including the Adelaide Festival's John Bray National Poetry Award and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. Lisa Gorton is a writer whose poetry collection, Press Release, was short-listed for the Melbourne Prize for Best Writing Award and the Mary Gilmore Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Her novel for children, Cloudland, was one of the Age Books of the Year.

Editorial Reviews

Andrew Lansdown has established a clear reputation as an imagist of high order in Australia. . . . Many of the poems are short, operate by comparisons, by metaphor especially, and have the property of startling the reader into shifts of perception and deep emotion.”  —Philip Salom, Australian poet and author, Keepers

“Lansdown remains the doyen, in Australia, of this sort of exquisite, small-scale, nature poem. Easy to attempt, devilishly hard to do!”  —John Jenkins, Australian poet, Growing Up with Mr Menzies

“Lansdown has few superiors as a technician.”  —Les Murray, Australian poet, Taller When Prone

“Lansdown has a very sincere and direct way of handling poems about his immediate family which subtly suggests great tenderness without becoming sentimental.”  —Geoff Page, Australian poet and author, 60 Classic Australian Poems

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