Attempts at Being (Salt Modern Poets S.) [Paperback]

Alison Croggon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Salt Modern Poets S. | Publication Date: March 1, 2002

This is a poetry of changes, dissolvings, transformations, fluidity between inside and out, between people and nature. Other starting points are the poetic tradition and musical forms - the ways that art works, what it can articulate and fail to articulate, the inexpressible, white space and silences, unfaithful translations.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Often shifting and allusive, her poems can convey the 'strangeness of dream'... The 'stubborn voice' is restless, impatient, exploratory - attuned to bedrock reality. Poems are often carried forward by sheer rhythmical energy and, if the nature of the anguish that often informs them can be hard to pin down, it's because anguish is seen as the price of being alive... She can slip in and out of styles as readily as an amphibian slips from land to water. Australian Book Review This is a poetry of changes, dissolvings, transformations, fluidity between inside and out, between people and nature... Other starting points are the poetic tradition and musical forms - the ways that art works, what it can articulate and fail to articulate, the inexpressible, white space and silences, unfaithful translations. New England Review Alison Croggon ... is one of the most assured of a new generation of Australian poets. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry

About the Author

Alison Croggon is an award-winning poet, novelist and critic who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has published four full poetry collections and several chapbooks, and her theatre texts and libretti have been performed at major festivals around Australia. She is Melbourne theatre critic for the Australian and She is also the author of the epic fantasy series, The Books of Pellinor, which has been published to critical and popular acclaim in the UK, the US, Germany and Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Salt Publishing; 1st ed edition (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1876857420
• ISBN-13: 978-1876857424
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,428,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alison Croggon writes in many genres, including criticism, theatre and prose. She is the author of the acclaimed young adult fantasy quartet, The Books of Pellinor. The first volume, The Gift, was nominated in two categories in the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction in December 2002 and named one of the Notable Books of 2003 by the Children's Book Council of Australia. The US edition, The Naming, was judged a Top Ten Teen Read of 2005 by the editors of Amazon.com. Her new novel, Black Spring, is due for publication in 2012. In 2009, she was named Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year for her theatre criticism. She is a prize winning poet, described by the Australian Book Review as "one of the most powerful lyric poets writing today."