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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Species of Spaces
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'"beautiful and sharp, critical and concise observations… gestures towards a neglected conversation between poetry and cultural studies in Australia."   —Tim Wright, Cordite

"… one of the most distinctive voices in Australian poetry"  —John Forbes, The Age

"from the erudite to the everyday, … the inconsequential, the tentative, are presented as more interesting than static profundities the author parodies in canonical poets … Yet his work is also a meditation on poetry"   —Gig Ryan, Australian Book Review' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Bristol,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Shearsman Books ,
      2018 .
      image of person or book cover 8265861133377145403.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 104p.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 2018

      ISBN: 9781848615762

Works about this Work

Review Short : Ken Bolton’s Species of Spaces Simeon Kronenberg , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

'Ken Bolton’s thinking is never too relaxed, but moves restlessly and anxiously, across people, cultural references and disparate locations even as he writes, or so it appears. And the resultant poems also seem to be unfiltered by any desire on the poet’s part to be ‘poetic’. But perhaps this is illusory. The poems are, after all, carefully considered and crafted, occupying the page determinedly even though the poet writes as if the events and thoughts he references are taking place in an ongoing, urgent present, via a stream of consciousness, and that the last thing on his mind is making ‘poetry’. Indeed, Bolton records something that looks like immediate, unfiltered thought and his compelling purpose is to register rather than editorialise.' (Introduction)

Review Short : Ken Bolton’s Species of Spaces Simeon Kronenberg , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

'Ken Bolton’s thinking is never too relaxed, but moves restlessly and anxiously, across people, cultural references and disparate locations even as he writes, or so it appears. And the resultant poems also seem to be unfiltered by any desire on the poet’s part to be ‘poetic’. But perhaps this is illusory. The poems are, after all, carefully considered and crafted, occupying the page determinedly even though the poet writes as if the events and thoughts he references are taking place in an ongoing, urgent present, via a stream of consciousness, and that the last thing on his mind is making ‘poetry’. Indeed, Bolton records something that looks like immediate, unfiltered thought and his compelling purpose is to register rather than editorialise.' (Introduction)

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