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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Bruise of Knowing
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'This is an important and timely book from a mature, perspicacious voice. Phyllis Perlstone shows us a Monash behind the image on the $100 bank note: the engineer, innovator, man-about-town, husband, father, warrior, tactician; his love affairs and vanities; the prejudice he encounters and regards as ‘strange dislike’. Monash’s life and Australia’s times start up from within the lines of poetry, dealing with brilliant but conflicted events and ideals. The poems move back and forth in time to regard the past and its values with a present perspective.' (Publication summary)

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    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2019 .
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      • Published June 2019
      ISBN: 9781925780161

Works about this Work

An Important Work : Anna Kerdijk Nicholson Launches ‘The Bruise of Knowing’ by Phyllis Perlstone Anna Nicholson , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019;
Margaret Bradstock Reviews Phyllis Perlstone’s The Bruise of Knowing Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 93 2019;

— Review of The Bruise of Knowing Phyllis Perlstone , 2019 selected work poetry

'The Bruise of Knowing is Phyllis Perlstone’s third collection of poetry from Puncher & Wattmann, and arguably her best to date. It tells the story of Sir John Monash, highlighting themes of ambition, power and warfare. A talented engineer and commander, Monash’s progress was conflicted by religious bigotry, the rise of feminism, and a growing awareness within himself of the devastation wrought by war. But this is not just history, although the Australia and Britain of Monash’s lifetime are vividly recreated. Perlstone selects revealing episodes of strength and weakness in her protagonist, interpreted through poetic devices that allow the reader to experience undercurrents well beyond the series of events. At the same time, this anecdote is counterpointed with several parenthetic poems drawing the writer-researcher into the framework and underlining current concerns with the encroachment of the built environment on the natural.' (Introduction)

Margaret Bradstock Reviews Phyllis Perlstone’s The Bruise of Knowing Margaret Bradstock , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 93 2019;

— Review of The Bruise of Knowing Phyllis Perlstone , 2019 selected work poetry

'The Bruise of Knowing is Phyllis Perlstone’s third collection of poetry from Puncher & Wattmann, and arguably her best to date. It tells the story of Sir John Monash, highlighting themes of ambition, power and warfare. A talented engineer and commander, Monash’s progress was conflicted by religious bigotry, the rise of feminism, and a growing awareness within himself of the devastation wrought by war. But this is not just history, although the Australia and Britain of Monash’s lifetime are vividly recreated. Perlstone selects revealing episodes of strength and weakness in her protagonist, interpreted through poetic devices that allow the reader to experience undercurrents well beyond the series of events. At the same time, this anecdote is counterpointed with several parenthetic poems drawing the writer-researcher into the framework and underlining current concerns with the encroachment of the built environment on the natural.' (Introduction)

An Important Work : Anna Kerdijk Nicholson Launches ‘The Bruise of Knowing’ by Phyllis Perlstone Anna Nicholson , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019;
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