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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Straya
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'A collection of poems from British/Australian poet Paul Summer. Straya is a book of hauntings, a parliament of ghosts, public and private, the story of a small-town Orpheus lost in the brusque shadows of a land-down-under. It's a treatise on grief, atrocity and human tragedy seen through the eyes of a bewildered mourner in exile, a travelogue of land and soul unraveling the complex carnage of our redacted histories, a song-book of love and hate, of sorrow and celebration, of cold despair and stubborn hope. ' 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Middlesbrough,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Smokestack Books ,
      2017 .
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      Extent: 134p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 8 July 2017

      ISBN: 9780995563513

Works about this Work

“Summers’ Knack for Nailing an Image and Capturing Its Emotional Charge Is Sublime” : Malcolm St Hill Reviews ‘straya’ by Paul Summers Malcolm St Hill , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October 2017 - March no. 24 2018;

'‘straya’, a bastardised version of ‘Australia’, is the title and the first and largest section of Paul Summers’ latest collection. While the term evokes Afferbeck Lauder’s ‘strine’, a droll representation of Australian language, there is little humour in Summers’ straya. The first poem in the collection, ‘obligato’, suggests an obligation on the reader to take notice. As this musical term indicates, that which follows should not be omitted.' (Introduction)

“Summers’ Knack for Nailing an Image and Capturing Its Emotional Charge Is Sublime” : Malcolm St Hill Reviews ‘straya’ by Paul Summers Malcolm St Hill , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October 2017 - March no. 24 2018;

'‘straya’, a bastardised version of ‘Australia’, is the title and the first and largest section of Paul Summers’ latest collection. While the term evokes Afferbeck Lauder’s ‘strine’, a droll representation of Australian language, there is little humour in Summers’ straya. The first poem in the collection, ‘obligato’, suggests an obligation on the reader to take notice. As this musical term indicates, that which follows should not be omitted.' (Introduction)

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