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David McCooey is an elegist of the everyday. His poems combine minimalism and intensity, elegance and emotion. Finely crafted and edged with wit, they offer a kind of unsentimental nostalgia, a passionate irony. Blister Pack is a first collection of immense control and variety which has the haunting resonance of music.
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About the Author:
David McCooey is an award-winning, and widely published, poet and critic. His first collection of poetry, Blister Pack, won the Mary Gilmore Award and was short-listed for four other major Australian literary awards. He is the Deputy General Editor of the award-winning Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (published internationally as The Literature of Australia). He is associate professor at Deakin University in Victoria.
Review:
Throughout this collection, there is pleasure in seeing a lucidly articulate intelligence at work. It is a readerly pleasure compounded, not negated, by the poet's recognition of the limits of experience. -- Jennifer Strauss * Australian Book Review * On of the most immediate pleasures of McCooey's poetry is its formal elegance, its air of composed sensuousness. `Beguiling' is how Dorothy Porter describes its `silky rythms'. -- Jennifer Strauss * Australian Book Review *
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- PublisherSalt Pub
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1844710521
- ISBN 13 9781844710522
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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