Winner of the Anne Elder Award
Shortlisted for the
Mary Gilmore Prize
Fresh News from the
Arctic
by Libby Hart
Interactive Press (2006)
64pp, pb, A$24.00
ISBN 978-1-876819-34-7
“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
Resonant and delicate, Fresh News from the Arctic
explores the physical and imaginary. This collection of 31 poems investigates
what it means to be human, probing into the meaning of life and questioning
mortality, myth – both private and known – 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.
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