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Title: Lonnie’s Lament: Towards a history of the vanishing present
Author: BOULTON KEN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 16/03/2017
Imprint: WAKEFIELD
Price: $22.95
Publishing status: Active
Writing that is buoyed by indeterminacy, in which a blithe surface both collapses and embodies
intellectual enquiry … the work is also a meditation on poetry.
Gig Ryan, Australian Book Review
[We find] the familiar use of floating lines, repetition, loose jaunty rhythms, tonal shifts, proper names and explicit
references to other poets … a rabbit warren of ideas and tangents grounded in the act of composition. In fact, no
other Australian poet, with the possible exception of Pam Brown, pays quite so much attention to the physical and
mental act of actually writing poetry.
Liam Ferney, Rabbit magazine
Thoughtful – and yet forgetful, easily distracted, hardly there sometimes – Ken Bolton’s is a lyrical figure limned
against the harsh outlines, the stark colours, of the Adelaide art world, adding a word here, a thought there, in the
general flux of words and deeds around town. A zany, he was for a long time employed at Adelaide’s
Experimental Art Foundation. He edits Little Esther books.
ISBN: 9781743054727