Selected Poems

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Jordie Albiston is one of Australia' s most accomplished and celebrated poets, andSelected Poems presents a keenly anticipated retrospective of her work. This significant volume offers the reader an enthralling visit to all thirteen of her critically acclaimed poetry collections-many of which have been honoured by national awards. From as far back as her 1995 debut Nervous Arcs, Albiston' s work has demonstrated a trademark exploration into the liberties and constraints of form. Accompanied by a deep regard for both music and mathematics, this preoccupation has manifested itself in a delight for traditional frameworks (in particular, the sonnet), as well as the generation of new forms. ' Intelligence and feeling are pushed to extremes in Albiston' s edgy poems. ' - Heather Cam,Sydney Morning Herald' Albiston' s poetry has long been fascinating to me, for her beautifully cadenced lyrics as much as for the classical elegance of her historical work. ' - Michael Sharkey, Island' Jack & Mollie (& Her) is triumphantly experimental in both technique and content . . . an important book by a leading Australian poet. ' - Geoff Page,Australian Book Review' While [the periodic table] may seem like an unorthodox method of writing a love poem, the results are explosive. ' - Sarah Holland-Batt,The Australian' Jordie Albiston' s poems slide through linguistic associations, etymologies, histories and locations. They establish a scale that is at once both atomic and cosmic, harnessing those minutely observed details of elemental love alongside the vast, world-altering consequences of emotional and chemical states. ' -Judges' Report, 2021 NSW Premier' s Literary Awards