Love Poems and Death Threats

Love Poems and Death ThreatsCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780702253270 Format: B format paperback Year: 2014 Publisher: University of Queensland Press Pages: 120 Description: From acclaimed poet Samuel Wagan Watson comes a much anticipated volume that is both wild and dynamic in its flair and vision, mapping the songlines the poemlines of an Australia scarred by invasion and injustice, but brimming, too, with the vital energies of creativity and resilience. With striking

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780702253270
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Pages: 120


Description:
From acclaimed poet Samuel Wagan Watson comes a much-anticipated volume that is both wild and dynamic in its flair and vision, mapping the songlines - the poemlines - of an Australia scarred by invasion and injustice, but brimming, too, with the vital energies of creativity and resilience. With striking immediacy, Watson's often satirical take on contemporary Australia, with its acquisitiveness and materialism, bears witness to an ancient culture protesting against the implacable march of development.
Honest, powerful and compelling, this new collection from one of Australia's most recognised Indigenous poets reveals the ways love might go wrong, but, equally, its transformative power to heal and resonate in unexpected ways.

Anyone who writes a death threat utilises the same passion that can compose a love poem . . . in the same breath we all have the capacity to smile whilst we are smitten . . . Samuel Wagan Watson

From the winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards - Book of the Year