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y separately published work icon Eardrum selected work   poetry   prose  
Alternative title: Eardrum : Poems and Prose about Music
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Eardrum
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'Eardrum moves across a much wider range of musical possibilities than is normally the case: from Ariana Grande at Manchester to the man who plays Hornsby Fountain in his Wellington boots; from the way music has been used to inspire terror, and signify power, to the way rock has been grounded in the word, and jazz in the body.

'As well as the main body of poems, there is a section of very brief pieces — Langford is also an aphorist — and a series of prose meditations: on the links between music and poetry, and on various aspects of jazz, classical and rock.' (Publication summary)

 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Waratah, Waratah - Shortland area, Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2019 .
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      Extent: 156p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 12th November 2019
      ISBN: 9781925780505

Works about this Work

Rose Lucas Reviews Eardrum by Martin Langford Rose Lucas , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Eardrum Martin Langford , 2019 selected work poetry prose
Martin Langford : Eardrum : Poems and Prose about Music Martin Duwell , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 15 2020;

— Review of Eardrum Martin Langford , 2019 selected work poetry prose

'Music is the most emotionally engaging of the arts/entertainments, the one we hold most closely to. You can lose friends after arguing about music whereas you are unlikely to lose friends claiming that Thackeray is a better novelist than Dickens or that Antonioni’s films are overrated. Martin Langford’s Eardrum is entirely about music. It is immediately engaging (at least to me) but unusually difficult to write about because one is continuously breaking off one’s own composition to argue with some specific point or to follow another one further. This usually doesn’t happen with books of poetry where a critic is able to retain a certain personal distance from what a poem wants to say about society or a tree, or wants to do in some experiment with form or language.' (Introduction)

Martin Langford : Eardrum : Poems and Prose about Music Martin Duwell , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 15 2020;

— Review of Eardrum Martin Langford , 2019 selected work poetry prose

'Music is the most emotionally engaging of the arts/entertainments, the one we hold most closely to. You can lose friends after arguing about music whereas you are unlikely to lose friends claiming that Thackeray is a better novelist than Dickens or that Antonioni’s films are overrated. Martin Langford’s Eardrum is entirely about music. It is immediately engaging (at least to me) but unusually difficult to write about because one is continuously breaking off one’s own composition to argue with some specific point or to follow another one further. This usually doesn’t happen with books of poetry where a critic is able to retain a certain personal distance from what a poem wants to say about society or a tree, or wants to do in some experiment with form or language.' (Introduction)

Rose Lucas Reviews Eardrum by Martin Langford Rose Lucas , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Eardrum Martin Langford , 2019 selected work poetry prose
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