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Selected Poems 1971-2016
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781848615731
Publisher: Summertime Pub
Published: Feb 15 2018
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Duggan's is a poetry that determines to surprise: almost daring a reader to exclaim: you wrote like this about that? --Alan Wearne, Sydney Morning Herald
Duggan's poetry has the virtue that it never 'abandons the local'. Like Paul Blackburn--a poet Duggan manifestly admires--he builds his work out of what he finds in, on or about the premises. --Tony Baker, Jacket
How ferociously Duggan attends both to the there of the world . . . and the here of writing. --John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti
The small poems ... slowly build up to a much larger narrative; a narrative of time and memory, of thinking and looking and being in the world, a kind of history that is happening on the sidelines. --Fiona Wright
The poems of Allotments and Under the Weather can often seem easily-done, casual jottings but there is a complex pattern behind their conception and an extraordinary quality of poise about their execution. Both books remind us what a remarkable poet Duggan has become. --Martin Duwell
I think of how Pound defined the image as 'that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'; and, still being thoroughly sane back in 1913, he went on to say: 'the natural object is always the adequate symbol'. Such an imagist doctrine has always been at the heart of Laurie Duggan's sharp-eyed work, ever since the days when he was at the core of a group who got together at Monash, back in the 1960s. --Chris Wallace-Crabbe
The immediacy of Duggan's perceptions possess a life which is not held in by the contours of the field but which realises the geography of range. This fine collection is more than singular spaces and lives as a world of transactions between poet and reader. Our guide through the spaces is a perceptive wit which looks closely at the world and concludes. --Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence
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