Suns (Paperback)

Tim Wright

ISBN 10: 192578004X / ISBN 13: 9781925780048

Published by Puncher and Wattmann, Glebe, NSW, 2019

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Paperback. This first full-length volume draws from poems written over roughly ten years: prose sequences, sonnets or thereabouts, parody-homages, a metro poem, psychical collaborations, and drawn from small-print chapbooks. Combining a condensed lyricism, collage, and durational procedures, the collection works its way through days and the everyday (near accidents, a working salad, the assumptions of architecture).The sense of fleeting glimpse, of provisionality, of actual sense-data taken in but not yet possessed, is terrific. Is it 'lyric'? Well, yes - but with a stylistic affi liation to Projective & subsequent aesthetics. And no - in the sense that Wright does not seek that laurel or that identification.'The feeling given is of a spacey self-awareness. So many lines in these poems seem acts of orientation, verifi cation of the subject's placement, vis--vis sounds, views, examinations - of the sky, of overhead wires, a bird, sounds of a nearby train or traffic, changes in the weather. A space both actual and mental.' - Ken Bolton, Southerly The sense of fleeting glimpse, of provisionality, of actual sense-data taken in but not yet possessed, is terrific. Is it 'lyric'? Well, yes - but with a stylistic affi liation to Projective & subsequent aesthetics. And no - in the sense that Wright does not seek that laurel or that identification. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suns (Paperback)
• Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann, Glebe, NSW
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 192578004X
• ISBN 13: 9781925780048
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This first full-length volume draws from poems written over roughly ten years: prose sequences, sonnets or thereabouts, parody-homages, a metro poem, psychical collaborations, and drawn from small-print chapbooks. Combining a condensed lyricism, collage, and durational procedures, the collection works its way through days and the everyday (near accidents, a working salad, the assumptions of architecture)...

The sense of fleeting glimpse, of provisionality, of actual sense-data taken in but not yet possessed, is terrific. Is it 'lyric'? Well, yes--but with a stylistic affiliation to Projective and subsequent aesthetics. And no--in the sense that Wright does not seek that laurel or that identification.

The feeling given is of a spacey self-awareness. So many lines in these poems seem acts of orientation, verification of the subject's placement, vis-a-vis sounds, views, examinations--of the sky, of overhead wires, a bird, sounds of a nearby train or traffic, changes in the weather. A space both actual and mental.

Ken Bolton, Southerly

Tim Wright is the author of The night's live changes (2014) and Weekend's end (2013).