Westerly Wind single work   poetry   "Out on the back deck a new amputation,"
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Westerly Wind
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Notes

  • Epigraph:

    I praise the scouring drought, the flying dust,

    the drying creek, the furious animal, 

    that they oppose us still;

    that we are ruined by the thing we kill. - Judith Wright

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Wildlife of Berlin Philip Neilsen , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018 12947828 2018 selected work poetry

    'Neilsen’s intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious and unerringly wry, these poems offer us forensically clear-eyed perspectives on subjects ranging from environmental degradation and the impending collapse of fragile ecosystems in the anthropocene, to unconventional and irreverent portraits of figures drawn from literature and politics and beyond. Neilsen’s poems are miraculously both deeply ethical and deeply comic; they surprise and delight with the irreverence of their critiques, while always keeping an eye on the tragic consequences of human folly. Above all, they ask us to sit still, to pay attention, to re-examine our basic precepts with equal measures of reason, wit, imagination and empathy. Wildlife of Berlin is a superbly crafted, incisive and urgent collection of new work from one of Australia’s most original poets, and deserving of the wide audience I am sure it will find. These are necessary poems for incendiary times.

    - Sarah Holland-Batt'  (Publication summary)

    Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 63 no. 1 2018 14203538 2018 periodical issue

    Presents work from the 2017 Writers' Development Program, supported by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. 

    2018
    pg. 12
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