{"product_id":"9781923106734","title":"Mirror Landscape","description":"Author: Lisa Gorton\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923106734\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 May 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLisa Gorton is one of Australia's most innovative and interesting writers, a much-awarded poet, novelist, essayist and scholar. This \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, a tribute to Gorton's achievement, brings together in one volume poems published over the past twenty years, from her first collection \u003ci\u003ePress Release\u003c\/i\u003e to her most recent \u003ci\u003eMirabilia\u003c\/i\u003e. It also includes a substantial new sequence of poems, 'Caesars' on the relation between art and power. The title of the volume, \u003ci\u003eMirror Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, reflects Gorton's fascination with the perspectives of space and time, and the ways in which memory and landscape, the past and the future, fold in and out of each other. Her images open to worlds within worlds, rooms within rooms, in poems which travel through exhibition galleries, panoramas, imperial extravaganzas and works of art  particularly those of the Renaissance, dense with allusions and covert references. The new poems extend this fascination with perspective to new and more wondrous dimensions, with a focus on mirrors and landscapes as they are employed by the Italian artists of the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Perugino. Their patronage by the Medicis allows their art to be read in terms of power  ambition, intrigue, cruelty and murder  so that with wonder the prospect of horror is never far off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Lisa Gorton:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese astounding poems unfold like the chambers of a nautilus: spiralling, repeating in dazzling patterns... They bring to poetry a heteroglossia usually confined to fiction in their exhilarating consideration of how art might be made and unmade.'  NSW Premier's Literary Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Mordant political wit, formal and thematic bricolage, a liquid control of the line, and the ability to trace patterns across the strata of history and society  to rove between time and the timeless  have long characterised Gorton's oeuvre.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867069829278,"sku":"ADS-9781923106734","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923106734.jpg?v=1779429243","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923106734","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}