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Smoke and Lilacs

  • ISBN-13: 9781857549362
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Norm Sibum
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 5 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 27/02/2013
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 150.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 110g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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"Smoke and Lilacs" is full of play and shadow, whispered intimations of mortality and glances of humour, elegiac lyric playing against steely classicism, an easy modern vernacular eliding with timeless grace. Sibum's meditative narratives move between worlds, modern and ancient, the state of our civic order and the realm of love. Human love and lust exist within the forces of empire - Rome or America. Men and women continue to ask of life 'from what god does it come, 'To what serendipity does it go' if chance is all and all there's been?', and the gods 'laugh at those who laugh at chance'. Across centuries, voices create a complex music from their moments on earth, the echoes of their 'gossip in the rain's cold light'.
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