Apologies for cross-posting - but I'm excited about this book
Best to all
Alison
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From: Peter Minter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 16:35:38 +1000
To: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Announcing 'blue grass' and free 'blue grass' audio by Peter Minter
ANNOUNCING
blue grass
and
free blue grass audio
Australian poet Peter Minterıs long awaited new book of poetry, blue grass,
has just been published by Salt Publishing.
Please scroll down for info about the book.
Pam Brown, poet and co-editor of Jacket magazine, will launch blue grass at
the Sydney Writersı Festival on Friday May 26th at 6pm. Please come along
and share a drink to help set this new book to the wind. All welcome check
the Festival program for venue details.
From Peter:
³I am also launching my new website and blog:
http://peterminter.com
http://poecosys.blogspot.com
In what may be an Australian first, I am making digital audio recordings of
every poem from my new book.
Please visit peterminter.com to download and listen to free blue grass
audio.²
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blue grass
Salt Publishing, 128 pp.
ISBN-10: 184471246X
ISBN-13: 978184471246
http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/184471246X.htm
Publisherıs blurb:
blue grass is the fifth book of poetry by 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 lifeıs
fragility must be founded in positive acknowledgements of worldly things and
relations, or more simply, in acts of love.
Peter Minterıs 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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