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'A Personal History of Vision expands on the concerns of Fischer’s acclaimed first collection Paths of Flight and embodies what Judith Beveridge has described as his ‘seemingly effortless ability to blend visual detail and imaginative vision.’ Intertwining the personal and the historical, the modern and the primeval, culture and nature, these poems explore vision in its many senses, often with reference to the visual arts. At their heart is a search for an enlarged awareness of ourselves and the world, in which the visible and the invisible, nature and spirit find one another. At the same time these poems are awake to inadequacies and the trials of death and suffering––personal, political, and ecological. Yet, even in the darkness (the focus of the second section) they detect possibilities of transformation.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • In memory of

    John Blackwood (1940-2015),

    teacher, geometer, friend

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2017 .
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      Extent: 112p.
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      • Published February 2017
      ISBN: 9781742589381
      Series: y separately published work icon UWAP Poetry Club Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016- 10166627 2016 series - publisher poetry

Works about this Work

‘Luminous Fragments’ : Three Poetry Titles from UWAP Ella Jeffery , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry ; A Personal History of Vision Luke Fischer , 2017 selected work poetry ; Flute of Milk Susan Fealy , 2017 selected work poetry
Dominique Hecq Reviews A Personal History of Vision by Luke Fischer Dominique Hecq , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 21 2017;

'Luke Fischer’s second collection,  A Personal History of Vision, published earlier this year in UWAP’s Poetry Series, firmly establishes him as a pyrotechnician of language. This is Fischer’s second collection, and like the first, which was commended in the Anne Elder Award, it brings a dazzling range and depth of experience to his writing. Fischer’s ‘Augury?’, included in Paths of Flight, won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Prize. Fischer is also a scholar of Romanticism, and this informs his poetry in unexpected and delightful ways. He has learned from Rainer Maria Rilke that an attentiveness to language enhances our understanding of things and therefore intensifies our vision. Like Rilke, his purpose is ‘to say [words] more intensely than the Things themselves ever dreamed of being’.  In that, he goes further than Samuel Taylor Coleridge who, in his Treatise on Logic, famously wrote: ‘it is words, names, or, if images used as words or names, that are the only and exclusive subject of understanding. In no instance do we understand a thing in itself’. ' (Introduction)

Give or Take a Cluster of Well-placed Words Ali Smith , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 October 2017; (p. 20)

'Sometimes poetry is made of words thought up and strung together. Sometimes it’s made of words found and rearranged: words from other poems, from signage or advertising, from overheard conversation, from novels, magazine articles, from Twitter, from the newspaper. Every kind of literary art and verbal detritus can be reused by poets.' (Introduction)

'A Personal History of Vision' by Luke Fischer, 'Flute of Milk' by Susan Fealy', and 'Dark Convicts: Ex-slaves on the First Fleet' by Judy Johnson Geoff Page , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 391 2017;
'The UWAP Poetry imprint began in late 2016, and there are already fourteen titles available. To judge from the quality of the three reviewed here, UWAP’s energy and ambition is well-placed.' (Introduction)
Luke Fischer : A Personal History of Vision Martin Duwell , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 12 no. 2017;
'The first section of this, Luke Fischer’s second book, is called “Retrospect” and begins, significantly, with a poem in which the author looks backwards.' (Introduction).
‘Luminous Fragments’ : Three Poetry Titles from UWAP Ella Jeffery , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of Snake Like Charms Amanda Joy , 2017 selected work poetry ; A Personal History of Vision Luke Fischer , 2017 selected work poetry ; Flute of Milk Susan Fealy , 2017 selected work poetry
Luke Fischer : A Personal History of Vision Martin Duwell , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 12 no. 2017;
'The first section of this, Luke Fischer’s second book, is called “Retrospect” and begins, significantly, with a poem in which the author looks backwards.' (Introduction).
'A Personal History of Vision' by Luke Fischer, 'Flute of Milk' by Susan Fealy', and 'Dark Convicts: Ex-slaves on the First Fleet' by Judy Johnson Geoff Page , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 391 2017;
'The UWAP Poetry imprint began in late 2016, and there are already fourteen titles available. To judge from the quality of the three reviewed here, UWAP’s energy and ambition is well-placed.' (Introduction)
Give or Take a Cluster of Well-placed Words Ali Smith , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 October 2017; (p. 20)

'Sometimes poetry is made of words thought up and strung together. Sometimes it’s made of words found and rearranged: words from other poems, from signage or advertising, from overheard conversation, from novels, magazine articles, from Twitter, from the newspaper. Every kind of literary art and verbal detritus can be reused by poets.' (Introduction)

Dominique Hecq Reviews A Personal History of Vision by Luke Fischer Dominique Hecq , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 21 2017;

'Luke Fischer’s second collection,  A Personal History of Vision, published earlier this year in UWAP’s Poetry Series, firmly establishes him as a pyrotechnician of language. This is Fischer’s second collection, and like the first, which was commended in the Anne Elder Award, it brings a dazzling range and depth of experience to his writing. Fischer’s ‘Augury?’, included in Paths of Flight, won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Prize. Fischer is also a scholar of Romanticism, and this informs his poetry in unexpected and delightful ways. He has learned from Rainer Maria Rilke that an attentiveness to language enhances our understanding of things and therefore intensifies our vision. Like Rilke, his purpose is ‘to say [words] more intensely than the Things themselves ever dreamed of being’.  In that, he goes further than Samuel Taylor Coleridge who, in his Treatise on Logic, famously wrote: ‘it is words, names, or, if images used as words or names, that are the only and exclusive subject of understanding. In no instance do we understand a thing in itself’. ' (Introduction)

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