Winner of the 2006
Anne Elder Award
Shortlisted for the Mary
Gilmore Prize
Fresh News from the
Arctic
by Libby Hart
Interactive Press
64pp, pb, A$24.00
ISBN 1-876819-34-0
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“Vivid, strong, sinuous,
beautifully rendered. Highly memorable and compelling.”
Mikhail Iossel
“What sets this collection
apart from all those well-intentioned, carefully-crafted, ultimately timid
and hollow collections being ferried out of the writing schools is that the
poet here seems genuinely caught between one breath and the next, transfixed
like a moth in a darkened room... It is a rare and special gift.”
Justin Lowe
“A small but significant
collection of poetry that is engaging, thought-provoking, sometimes wryly
humourous, and that demands reading and rereading to uncover the delicate
nuances hidden so artfully within its language.”
Liz Hall-Downs
“Sensitive, almost fearless... Libby Hart has crafted a distinctive
first collection, she is a confident poet and her poems are a pleasure to
read."
Louise Waller
"These warm, spare poems move exquisitely between memory, imagination
and history… Libby Hart understands that poetry is language on the
point of evocation, intent on “murmuring the world, grasping it
slowly”. She is indeed a poet to watch.”
Lisa Jacobson
“These are poems attuned to
our tough yet fragile planet. Feelingly, they celebrate its loam and snow,
travelled seas, and the inexhaustible theatre of sky.”
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
About Fresh News from the Arctic
:
From a blue meadow of icebergs and kangaroos in Paris to the anatomy of
clouds, Darwin’s theory of evolution, ancestral hauntings and the heart
as a time capsule, Fresh News from the Arctic is the compelling first
book by emerging Melbourne writer Libby Hart.
Over the past decade Libby Hart has built a reputation for spare, haunting
meditations on the human condition. In Fresh News from the Arctic,
Hart explores the natural world, memories, sorrow, mortality, hope, endurance
and all of the fragile elements that make us human.
Resonant and delicate, Fresh News from the Arctic explores the
physical and imaginary. This collection of 31 poems probes the meaning of
life and questions mortality, personal mythology and the mysterious. At once
atmospheric, with a surreal blend of emotion and memory, Fresh News is
a fluid and ever-shifting landscape of possibilities. These poems are restless
and inquisitive. They echo a desire to forge a voice that is as curious as it
is distinctive.
Fresh News from the
Arctic is available at selected bookshops or by ordering online through
Interactive Publications. Alternatively you can email or call (+617) 3122 1312 to speak
to an IP sales representative.
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Last updated: 24 August 2008
