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Title: Spell, A Charm: Poems
Author: LEONARD JOHN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2014
Imprint: HYBRID PUBLISHERS
Price: $19.95
Publishing status: Active
Brief description: In his powerful fifth collection John Leonard dissects contemporary life and ideas in intense, but human, lyric poetry. This four-part collection begins with a section of meditative poems of everyday moments, often of great peace (‘the Hope and Trust of the Times’). Following a section of satires on the complacencies and delusions of our world, a section on poetry and other arts reinstates a feeling of the grounded and the valid (‘Sadness is no Longer Sad’). The final section, (‘Change beyond Change’), is a series of reflections on the end-game our society is playing with the global environment, and necessarily ends on a sombre note. Poems from this collection have appeared in: The Canberra Times; Contrapasso 4; Island; LiNQ; Meanjin; Overland; Social Alternatives 25; The Weekend Australian and, in translation, When the Moon Is Swimming Naked, Australasian Poetry for the Chinese Youngster (2013). About the Author John Leonard (born 1965) is an Australian poet. He was born in the UK, and from 1984 to 1987 studied at Oxford University. In 1991 he moved to Australia.
He currently lives in Canberra, Australia and was poetry editor of the journal Overland from 2003-2007. Works – Poetry: Unlove; 100 Elegies for Modernity; Jesus in Kashmir; Braided Lands Criticism: The Way of Poetry (2010) considers poetry in the context of Daoism.
ISBN: 9781925000573
Pages: 80