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  • ISBN-13: 9781761099083
  • Publisher: GINNINDERRA PRESS
    Imprint: GINNINDERRA PRESS
  • By Max Lomas
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 5 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 16/12/2024
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 129.00mm) Weight: 170g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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This collection is made up of occasional verse which is to say poems written only occasionally. They make no claim on merit as 'high art' from someone centrally engaged in questions of literary craft except in so far as they try to follow Ezra Pound's nostrum that a poem should be an appropriate mix of thought music and image. The poems arise from personal experience situations feelings scenes but self-indulgence is given some generalising distance by edits to provide shape and measure edits that with any luck add a bit of concision and depth. What appear here are selected from the jottings of a lifetime and appear in chronological order of their creation.

Max Lomas was born just after World War Two and grew up in country towns in South Australia. He went with his parents to Papuain the 1960s, dabbled with 'hippie' communeideals and anti-war protest in the seventies, and became a teacher for a number of years, ending up in New South Wales after travels to all the places referred to in his poetry collection. Some of the poems have been aired on radio and published in small magazines in Australia, Singapore, Hawai'i and India.
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