blue grass
My new book of poetry, blue grass, is now available from Salt Publishing.
Pam Brown, poet and co-editor of Jacket magazine, will launch blue grass at the Sydney Writers Festival.
Please come along and share a drink to help set this new book to the wind —
Friday May 26th at 6pm
Bangarra Mezzanine
The Wharf Pier 4/5
Hickson Road Walsh Bay
Free Event All Welcome
This came in recently from a favourite poetry correspondent, Myra Ellen:
"blue grass is the fifth book of poetry by multi-award winning Australian poet, Peter Minter.
Fierce in its attitude to life, visionary in its philosophical curiosity and fluent in its study of traditional and contemporary poetics from around the world, blue grass heralds the renewal of an engaged lyrical voice in Australian and international poetry.
Opening with a Homeric challenge to the contemporary imagination, to go
eastward into another land,
the bluegrass plain
and
find
what there is to say
of transformation, the sparkle, junk
& greenest hearts
blue grass embarks on an epic journey through extraordinarily everyday personal, natural and cultural landscapes.
The book is arranged across four parts, History of the Present, Auto Heaven, Australiana and Fresh Kills, and is interwoven by the Yonder Sonnets, an innovative series of meditations on journey and habitation. Minter draws on a range of modern European and American explorations in thought and form and remixes them with invigorating studies of traditions in voice and image.
The poems are readable and alert. They offer intimate and careful observations of places and people that are disarmingly precise in their detail. They reflect on politics, war and environmental devastation alongside avowals of being and relating. They sample images and riffs from popular culture, literature, music, news, art and film, throwing daily life into relief against a resilient, organically shared history. Few poets accomplish such an original balance between street-smart enquiry, closely felt meditation and poetic experimentation.
Above all, the poems are affirmations of existence. They are the work of a mature and daring imagination. They know that a deep appreciation of life’s fragility must be founded in positive acknowledgements of worldly things and relations, or more simply, in acts of love.
Peter Minter’s achievement is the invention of a radically contemporary lyricism — confirming his reputation as one of the most relevant and groundbreaking poets writing in Australia today."
Pam Brown, poet and co-editor of Jacket magazine, will launch blue grass at the Sydney Writers Festival.
Please come along and share a drink to help set this new book to the wind —
Friday May 26th at 6pm
Bangarra Mezzanine
The Wharf Pier 4/5
Hickson Road Walsh Bay
Free Event All Welcome
This came in recently from a favourite poetry correspondent, Myra Ellen:
"blue grass is the fifth book of poetry by multi-award winning Australian poet, Peter Minter.
Fierce in its attitude to life, visionary in its philosophical curiosity and fluent in its study of traditional and contemporary poetics from around the world, blue grass heralds the renewal of an engaged lyrical voice in Australian and international poetry.
Opening with a Homeric challenge to the contemporary imagination, to go
eastward into another land,
the bluegrass plain
and
find
what there is to say
of transformation, the sparkle, junk
& greenest hearts
blue grass embarks on an epic journey through extraordinarily everyday personal, natural and cultural landscapes.
The book is arranged across four parts, History of the Present, Auto Heaven, Australiana and Fresh Kills, and is interwoven by the Yonder Sonnets, an innovative series of meditations on journey and habitation. Minter draws on a range of modern European and American explorations in thought and form and remixes them with invigorating studies of traditions in voice and image.
The poems are readable and alert. They offer intimate and careful observations of places and people that are disarmingly precise in their detail. They reflect on politics, war and environmental devastation alongside avowals of being and relating. They sample images and riffs from popular culture, literature, music, news, art and film, throwing daily life into relief against a resilient, organically shared history. Few poets accomplish such an original balance between street-smart enquiry, closely felt meditation and poetic experimentation.
Above all, the poems are affirmations of existence. They are the work of a mature and daring imagination. They know that a deep appreciation of life’s fragility must be founded in positive acknowledgements of worldly things and relations, or more simply, in acts of love.
Peter Minter’s achievement is the invention of a radically contemporary lyricism — confirming his reputation as one of the most relevant and groundbreaking poets writing in Australia today."
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