The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells -- from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures and descents into the underworld. The cast of characters includes members of the poets family alongside heroes from myth and literature, such as Orpheus, Scheherazade and Frankensteins Creature. And crowding in upon these, at all times, a multitude of non-human protagonists: sun and stars, wind and water, mud and sand, body fluids, decaying matter, chemicals organic and inorganic, and a great many fishes and birds and beasts. Sinking Lessons is the first collection of poetry from Philip Armstrong, winner of the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.
| ISBN: | 9781988592411 |
| Publication date: | 20th July 2020 |
| Author: | Philip Armstrong |
| Publisher: | Otago University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 53 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells -- from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures and descents into the underworld. The cast of characters includes members of the poets family alongside heroes from myth and literature, such as Orpheus, Scheherazade and Frankensteins Creature. And crowding in upon these, at all times, a multitude of non-human protagonists: sun and stars, wind and water, mud and sand, body fluids, decaying matter, chemicals organic and inorganic, and a great many fishes and birds and beasts. Sinking Lessons is the first collection of poetry from Philip Armstrong, winner of the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.
Sinking Lessons features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Sinking Lessons is available in Ebook, Paperback
Sinking Lessons was written by Philip Armstrong and published by Otago University Press
Sinking Lessons has 53 pages
£12.60