Paperback. The essays of Apples & Oranges are selected from a decade of sustained enquiry into the possibilities for human & more-than human poetics in the Anthropocene. Drawing on Cooke's experiences as a poet, critic, traveller and translator, the landscapes are predominantly Antarctic, Australasian, and North & South American. New continental, intellectual and affective formations emerge here as hybrids of memoir, travelogue and literary criticism. Or a plethora of songs and signs are rescued from the wastelands of colonial imaginaries. Often, the search for meaning leads to poems; sometimes it leads to the contours of Cooke's own life. Indeed, the logics are poetic rather than sequential: allusion, collage, fragment and metaphor compose recurrent, occasionally symphonic structures.In line with the book's title, the essays interrogate and often transgress boundaries between poetry & prose, art & science, and human & non-human, and the general tenor is both exploratory and precautionary: as the planet cooks into catastrophe, leaf-cutter ants make symbiotic sculptures, lyrebirds make forest operas, steel becomes sentient, the Brazilian Amazon blends with the Australian Outback, and Roman ruins foreshadow giant bergs breaking from the Antarctic ice sheet.'.Cooke is one of our more exciting writers on poetry.' Caitlin Maling, Plumwood Mountain Journal The essays of Apples & Oranges are selected from a decade of sustained enquiry into the possibilities for human & more-than human poetics in the Anthropocene. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Apples & Oranges (Paperback)
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann, Glebe, NSW
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
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