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Title: Drones & Phantoms: 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal.
Author: MAIDEN JENNIFER
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2014
Imprint: GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING COMP
Price: $24.00
Publishing status: Active
Winner of the Victorian Premiers Literature Award, the richest literary prize in Australia Shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry PrizeDrones and Phantoms is a powerful successor to Maidens prize-winning collection Liquid Nitrogen, and again features her unique interweaving of the personal and the political, in the use of intimate and public poetic modes within each poem and within the collection as a whole. The poems are in fact conversations, not only between the poet and the reader, but between historical and political figures, such as Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, Tanya Pliberesek and Jane Austen, Mandela and Obama, Queen Victoria and Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who come to life in Maidens poems to discuss their anxieties and ethical insecurities. There are also poems on the Cypriot financial crisis, Jimmy Hoffa, Judith Wright, Julia Gillard, the Copenhagen giraffe killing and Russian power in the Crimea. Maiden is unique both for the interrogative power of her poems, and the sense of vulnerability they express, in their subjects, and in the poet herself.
ISBN: 9781922146724
Weight: 130gr
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm