{"product_id":"9781923106284","title":"Poetry","description":"Author: Antigone Kefala\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923106284\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 310\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e brings together all the published poems of the late Antigone Kefala, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Australian literature. Her mixed background  in Romania, Greece, New Zealand and Australia  gave her lyric poetry a unique richness and grace. Her writing was informed by literary traditions that allowed her to achieve powerful effects by apparently simple means. Her poems are carefully worked, minimal yet resonant, evocative in their use of implication and understatement, startling in their imagery. They confront loss and grief and displacement, particularly as the consequences of war and migration. They excoriate pretension. They also express delight in the present moment, in newly discovered forms of experience and nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e includes all the poems in Kefala's six previous poetry books, published over fifty years, from \u003ci\u003eThe Alien \u003c\/i\u003e(1973) and \u003ci\u003eThirsty Weather \u003c\/i\u003e(1978), to \u003ci\u003eEuropean Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eAbsence: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1992, 1998), \u003ci\u003eFragments\u003c\/i\u003e (Giramondo, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eJourneys\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). \u003ci\u003eFragments\u003c\/i\u003e won the prestigious Judith Wright Calanthe Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry. But most of her poetry has been out of print for many years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867069010078,"sku":"ADS-9781923106284","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923106284.jpg?v=1779429232","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923106284","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}