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July 15, 2010
Glyn Maxwell’s poetry is noted for its everyday vocabulary, used in tight metrical forms. His work is often concerned with the individual’s relationship to the community, expressed through narrators who are either outsiders or isolated within a group. In ‘The Play of the Word’, the narrator remembers the story of an unnamed ‘her’ — an outsider who stays in town for a short while, before she is forced out for not showing due respect at a religious play. However the narrator also seems to have been dislocated from his community by guilt, sympathy with ‘her’, and his new questioning of the society’s rules. |
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July 15, 2010
Mario Petrucci is a prolific and powerful poet, known for his themed collections that explore love and loss, scientific consciousness, the natural world and the complexities of warfare. |
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July 15, 2010
Farley’s 2009 collection, Field Recordings, is a substantial gathering of poems originally commissioned for BBC radio. The book was shortlisted for the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Farley champions radio as the most creative medium to work in: “You will never do anything more collaborative, as a writer, than make a piece of work for broadcast. The medium is intrinsically collaborative.” |