That Galloping Horse

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ISBN: 9781848619142 Format: Trade Paperback Book Title: That Galloping Horse width: 6 in Language: English Item Width: 6 in Number of Pages: 76 Pages Author: Petra White Item Height: 0.2 in Publisher: Shearsman Books Topic: Women Authors, Australian & Oceanian Genre: Poetry Item Length: 9 in Publication Year: 2024 height: 0.2 in Item Weight: 3.7 Oz

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That Galloping Horse. Title: That Galloping Horse. Language: English. Number of Pages: 76. Publication Date: 2024-01-26. Publisher: Shearsman Books. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: That Galloping Horse ISBN13: 9781848619142 ISBN10: 1848619146 Author: White, Petra (Author) Description: Petra White Is A Distinctive Voice In Australian Poetry That Galloping Horse Is Her Sixth Collection, And The First To Introduce Her To Uk Readers Written While Living In Melbourne, London And Berlin Between 2017 And 2023, This New Collection Includes 13 Elegies That Mediate A Spiritual Anguish Through A Delight In Language And The Physical World White's Characteristic, Often Dark Playfulness Is Also Abundant In This Collection, With Short Mysterious Lyrics That Build Layers Of Irony, And Raw Narratives That Traverse The Nullarbor Highway And The Atomic Cloud Of Maralinga In Its Flexible And Changeable Styles, That Galloping Horse Catches Many Thematic Concerns, Including Proximity To The Ukraine War, Domestic Life In The Reality Of Planetary Demise, The Strangeness Of Post-Pandemic Berlin, Modern Work, Marriage And The Possibilities Of Familial Lovements On Previous Collections: This Is A Very Accomplished And Very Complex First Book By A Poet Who Can Be Said To Be, Already, Of Considerable Importance -Martin Duwell, Australian Poetry Review, On The Incoming Tideamong Our Poets, I Was Moved By Petra White With The Intense Inwardness Attained In Her Near-Collected A Hunger -Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Sydney Morning Herald, Books Of The Year 2015'How The Temple Was Built' Is Not An Easy Poem To Describe Suffice To Say That It Has Something In Common With Arthur Boyd's Biblical Paintings And, Arguably, With Ted Hughes's Book-Length Poem Crow It Is Satisfyingly Physical And Meta-Physical At The Same Time -Geoff Page, The Australian, On Reading For A Quiet Morning Petra White's 'Ode On The End' Is Hectically Imperilled - 'He Givesyou The Necks Of Your Enemies(Fear Must Have Foes) He Draws Up A Battlewhere Perhaps There Was Only A Soul' Her Work Is Often Rilkean Internal Interrogation, With Emphatic Alliteration, But There Are Also Finely Executed Portraits Such As 'Older Sister' - 'Chore-Hungry And Chore-Fed Her Fingers Fly, Her Eyes Are Stone' -Gig Ryan, The Sydney Morning Herald, On Thirty Australian Poets Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Shearsman Books Publication Date: 2024-01-26 Dimensions: 0.2'' H x 9'' L x 6'' W Number of Pages: 76 Language: English