Composed between 1993 and 1997, Seances represents the first full-length collection of poetry from Sydney-born writer Louis Armand. Compared favourably to French poet Yves Bonnefoy, Armand has attracted growing attention from editors and the reading public alike, particularly in his native Australia where his work has recently gained hard-won approval from the literary establishment.
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Armand pursues the complex challenges language poses and his own language is luminous and original, both in structure and in poetic form ... The poems in this collection are sparse in style and written with great expertise. Many rank among the best work written anywhere ... a superb collection. -- John Millett, Poetry Australia
Louis Armand seeks to create a different kind of poetry. A voice that is both immediate and reflective, vital and residual. His is a poetry of extraction and distillation that merges myth and presence, that is elegiac and celebratory, ironic and sincere. The contradictions are there, the paradoxes are established, and the lyric intertwines with rhetoric. There is also a determined intelligence steering a dark passion. It is confronting workin subject matter and technique. Sances is an unusual bookIve read nothing like it before. It takes risks. And this is exciting and necessary. -- John Kinsella
Published in the Czech Republic where Australian-born Armand is resident, this collection has an expatriate flavour, with settings that include Greece, Spain, France and Germany . . . Its elegance and erudition are commendable . . . -- Lauren Williams, Australian Book Review, October, 1998
There is something glittering in this poetry, there are accurate and sometimes surprising images and intensive feelings: this is a very frank poetry. -- Miroslav Holub
Louis Armand seeks to create a different kind of poetry. A voice that is both immediate and reflective, vital and residual. His is a poetry of extraction and distillation that merges myth and presence, that is elegiac and celebratory, ironic and sincere. The contradictions are there, the paradoxes are established, and the lyric intertwines with rhetoric. There is also a determined intelligence steering a dark passion. It is confronting workin subject matter and technique. Sances is an unusual bookIve read nothing like it before. It takes risks. And this is exciting and necessary. -- John Kinsella
Published in the Czech Republic where Australian-born Armand is resident, this collection has an expatriate flavour, with settings that include Greece, Spain, France and Germany . . . Its elegance and erudition are commendable . . . -- Lauren Williams, Australian Book Review, October, 1998
There is something glittering in this poetry, there are accurate and sometimes surprising images and intensive feelings: this is a very frank poetry. -- Miroslav Holub
From the Publisher
Seances is the first in an edition devoted to expatriate writers who live in Prague or thereabouts. Armand has been living in Prague for some years, where he teaches at the university, and I feel he is one of the more interesting writers from the foreign community.
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