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Modewarre
Patricia Sykes
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Description for Modewarre
Paperback. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 126.
Modewarre is the indigenous Wathaurong word for musk duck. Through this icon of land and water, Patricia Sykes explores various histories - her own, her forebears, the wider histories of identity and place – in poems that are as concentrated as pearls. It sweeps its subjects along in a flow of striking images and strong feelings, these buoyed by an intelligent sense of poetic structure and modulated by a sometimes ironic eye.
Modewarre is the indigenous Wathaurong word for musk duck. Through this icon of land and water, Patricia Sykes explores various histories - her own, her forebears, the wider histories of identity and place – in poems that are as concentrated as pearls. It sweeps its subjects along in a flow of striking images and strong feelings, these buoyed by an intelligent sense of poetic structure and modulated by a sometimes ironic eye.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781876756505
SKU
V9781876756505
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-11
About Patricia Sykes
Patricia Sykes is a prize-winning poet and the author of the acclaimed collection, Wire Dancing (1999). In 1996 "river salvages" won the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award and "death, passion-fruit and roses" was a finalist in the 1995 AUNTECH Poetry Prize. Two of the poems in Modewarre have been awarded prizes. "Modewarre -- ways you might approach it" was Highly ... Read more
Reviews for Modewarre
"Fast, precise poetry, Sykes works in the in-between area of named and nameless feelings. [H]er poems ... leap over boundaries, using language as a balletic or gestural medium." Martin Harrison, "Australian Book Review"