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Maps of Small Countries

  • ISBN-13: 9781760411589
  • Publisher: GINNINDERRA PRESS
    Imprint: GINNINDERRA PRESS
  • By Russell Erwin
  • Price: AUD $29.99
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  • Local release date: 09/06/2016
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 129.00mm) 122 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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Memoir and celebration meditation and exploration sketches and simple vignette these are some of the varied  fields through which Russell Erwin takes his readers in this latest collection which  bears the hallmarks of his earlier work – an attention to the physical sensual world unsurprising in one who makes his living by farming in the Southern Tablelands of NSW a muscularity of  language and a fondness for the striking image. But here it seems is a more assured handling of material a poet more reflective and celebratory without any loss of accessibility and immediacy. He ranges from a suburban childhood to delicate and joyful pieces welcoming the birth of a granddaughter from moving elegies for parents to songs of loss particularly the prize-winning ‘And Still’ and of course poems which have grown from the earth of his farming life. Each poem is in its own way a map of a small country into which the reader is invited to enter and share.

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