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Swimming in Words: New and Selected Poems
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780994518286
Publisher: Stirling Publishing Australia
Published: Jul 29 2024
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
WINNER, EYELANDS BOOK AWARDS PRIZE, 2025
FINALIST, WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS, 2025
WINNER, SILVER PRIZE THE WISHING SHELF BOOK COVER AWARDS
Luke Icarus Simon's groundbreaking work was first published in the 1980s and he has since become one of the quiet achievers of Australian Literature. This collection explores how we relate to family and partners and the shaping of our identity through the shifting currents of love, friendship and illness. Simon's aim is to make sense of why we're all here, masterfully navigating and negotiating the realities of our existential aloneness.
Luke Icarus Simon's experience as an actor and playwright informs each poem, propelling the reader into a sensual, visceral and passionate world. With settings as diverse as the Great Ocean Road, Santiago, Athens and the Greek Islands, Simon draws readers into the intimacies of his life.
SWIMMING IN WORDS brings together seventy of Simon's poems, many previously published in journals, others revised for this collections as well as completely new works such as the 4,000-word eponymous prose poem.
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