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Item Details
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SCREENS JETS HEAVEN
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS |
| By: |
Jill Jones |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1876857226 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781876857226 |
| Publisher: |
SALT PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2002 |
| Pages: |
152 |
| Description: |
The winner of the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, Jill Jones' poems are at once gentle yet resistant, accessible yet strict; the language assured in its effects and selection of detail. |
| Synopsis: |
Screens jets Heaven contains a selection of poems from Jill Jones's previously published books, followed by a solid selection of new and uncollected poems. The work is intellectually sharp, alternately tough, lyrical, fibrous, dangerous, sceptical and delicate, characterized by clear-eyed imagery, taut lineation, humour and a distinctive mellifluous rhythm. Jones explores the boundaries of inner and outer experience, the shifts and discontinuities between fact and possibility. Hers is often a poetry of atmospheres -- physical, emotional, etheric as it encompasses and moves through the grit and clamour of streets and neighbourhoods, the traffic of both road and air, harbours and city office blocks, work life, domesticity, the passions of the heart. She is an exploratory, expansive poet: nature (both terrestrial and celestial), the movement of the elements and weather, various affects of night and day are integrated within her human, psychic landscapes as a way of engaging with the rhapsodic. Her work is concerned with both the physical and material as well as more subtle levels of feeling and inner consciousness.Throughout the collection there is an involvement with the nature and quality of urban and inner suburban existence -- as represented by the city of Sydney. The poet's persona observes, engages with, absorbs, scrutinizes and meditates on contemporary urban existence, in all its various tempers and tones. She invites the reader to share in the speculative processes of discovery. Overall this is a powerful collection, characterised by a sensual richness and a surrealist, transformative energy. |
| US Grade: |
From Eighth Grade to College Senior |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
Australia |
| Imprint: |
Salt Publishing |
| Prizes: |
Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry 2003. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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