Far-Flung (Poetry)

Far-Flung (Poetry)
Rhian Gallagher
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h198 x 129mm - 80pg
13 Aug 2020 NZ
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9781869409111
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Far-Flung traverses multiple terrains - home and upheaval, our connection to the environment and to people, our relation to the past, place and placelessness. From 'the Kilmog slumping seaward' to 'the bracts and the berries and the leaves' of the Mackenzie country; the moth ('courier of bloom powder'); the wind that grows like an animal and 'the great loneliness / of grass' - Gallagher is in conversation with the natural world. Her lyric poems, marked by attentiveness, have an earthy, intuitive music and a linguistic clarity.Gallagher moves easily from the ecological and personal concerns of contemporary life to the nineteenth-century Irish migrants and the historic legacy of the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. The multi-voiced, dramatic sequence 'Seacliff Epistles' draws on a rich variety of poetic forms: from lyric to prose poem, parable to riddle, monologue and letter poem. Bill Manhire called Rhian Gallagher's poetry 'one of the quiet, astonishing secrets of New Zealand writing'. Far-Flung sees the poet's lyric exploration broaden considerably in an assured new work.
'Gallagher's poems have linguistic clarity, attention to detail and place, restraint and resonance. They have a deep connection with the landscape, their physical experience of it engendering a spirituality of place.' - Cilla McQueen. 'There is a depth to these poems, but a depth so finely raised with the stringent haul of craft and refinement. I can think of no more than a handful of New Zealand poets, whose work I admire to anything like a similar degree.' - Vincent O'Sullivan
Rhian Gallagher's first poetry book Salt Water Creek (Enitharmon Press, 2003) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. In 2007 Gallagher won a Canterbury History Foundation Award, which led to the publication of her book Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack Adamson (South Canterbury Museum, 2010). She also received the 2008 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. Gallagher's Shift (AUP, 2011) won the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry. In 2018, she held the University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781869409111
Published: 13 Aug 2020
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 80

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