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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Justice for Romeo
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'Horses have been intrinsic to much of human history. Their connection to human activities has always been dualistic but have also been constantly beset with ironies. Equine connections to human activities have always been dualistic: horses are linked with both deities and domestic drudgery; lauded as symbols of freedom and subservience; relied upon a vital means of transportation and agricultural labour, or considered a luxurious indulgence. In Europe from the sixteenth century onwards, artistic and literary representations of horses started a tendency towards the anthropomorphic, moving away from dead-eyed mechanical portraits. In the eighteenth century, romanticised portrayals of horses began a steady rise to primacy. Today, horses maintain a liminal position enjoyed by few animals: they are not quite pets, but not quite livestock. They are still working animals, but also easily replaced by machines or human athletes. Scientific knowledge of how to best raise, train and manage horses is flourishing, yet long cultures of anecdotes and training theories, grounded in highly subjective and often questionably founded interpretations of equine behaviour, reign supreme in many circles.

'Who is Romeo? He was not my horse. In life he was a symptom of all that is wrong with industrial-scale equine production. He fell victim to human interests in as many ways as it was possible to fall. Well-meaning ignorance is as dangerous as malice. Amongst horse people, this is also often called love.'

Source: Author's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Cordite Press , 2018 .
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      Extent: 85p.
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      • Published: 1st March 2018
      ISBN: 9780648056805
      Series: y separately published work icon CorditeBooks : Series 3 Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2018-2019 12913973 2018 series - publisher poetry Number in series: 2

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Beyond Ambiguity : Tracing Literary Sites of Activism John Kinsella , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2021 23070912 2021 single work criticism

'This volume completes John Kinsella’s trilogy of critical activist poetics, begun two decades ago. 

'It challenges familiar topoi and normatives of poetic activity as it pertains to environmental, humanitarian and textual activism in ‘the world-at-large’ – it shows how ambiguity can be a generative force when it works from a basis of non-ambiguity of purpose. The book shows how there is a clear unambiguous position to have regarding issues of justice, but that from that confirmed point ambiguity can be an intense and useful activist tool. 

'The book is an essential resource for those wishing to study Kinsella, and for those with an interest in twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, and it will stand as an inspiring proclamation of the author's faith in the transformative power of poetry and literary activity as a force for good in the world.'

Source : publisher's blurb

E A Gleeson Reviews Justice for Romeo by Siobhan Hodge E. A. Gleeson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , April 2019;

— Review of Justice for Romeo Siobhan Hodge , 2018 selected work poetry
Riding Into Consideration : A Review of Siobhan Hodge’s ‘Justice for Romeo’ Robert Wood , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of Justice for Romeo Siobhan Hodge , 2018 selected work poetry
E A Gleeson Reviews Justice for Romeo by Siobhan Hodge E. A. Gleeson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , April 2019;

— Review of Justice for Romeo Siobhan Hodge , 2018 selected work poetry
Riding Into Consideration : A Review of Siobhan Hodge’s ‘Justice for Romeo’ Robert Wood , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of Justice for Romeo Siobhan Hodge , 2018 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Beyond Ambiguity : Tracing Literary Sites of Activism John Kinsella , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2021 23070912 2021 single work criticism

'This volume completes John Kinsella’s trilogy of critical activist poetics, begun two decades ago. 

'It challenges familiar topoi and normatives of poetic activity as it pertains to environmental, humanitarian and textual activism in ‘the world-at-large’ – it shows how ambiguity can be a generative force when it works from a basis of non-ambiguity of purpose. The book shows how there is a clear unambiguous position to have regarding issues of justice, but that from that confirmed point ambiguity can be an intense and useful activist tool. 

'The book is an essential resource for those wishing to study Kinsella, and for those with an interest in twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, and it will stand as an inspiring proclamation of the author's faith in the transformative power of poetry and literary activity as a force for good in the world.'

Source : publisher's blurb

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