'Kerri Shying's compact opus Know Your Country hides a question in the title who's the you? Whose country is it anyway? Who needs to know? Who's asking? Who gets to ask what? Coming through these pages, every reader will find different answers and fresh questions needing to be asked. And what about when the questions are accusations?
'This is a book wise to little tricks for painting people into corners.' (Publication summary)
'Mark Berryman’s original artwork on the cover of Kerri Shying’s Know Your Country is a study in aqueous blues and greens, reminiscent of underwater scenes, long neglected sites of lostness and loss, the kind of world inhabited by forgotten shipwrecks. This shadowy opacity seems a fitting introduction to the poems contained within, a nod to the idea of landscapes you think you know but which, diving beneath the surface find you are unfamiliar with after all. This impression limns the sense that a closer reading of your surroundings is required, so sit back and pay attention if you want to in some sense know your (?) country.' (Introduction)
'Know Your Country by Kerri Shying, Puncher & Wattmann, 2020, was launched by Keri Glastonbury at the Lass O’Gowrie Hotel, Newcastle on Saturday 28 November 2020. This is s slightly edited version of that speech.'
'Mark Berryman’s original artwork on the cover of Kerri Shying’s Know Your Country is a study in aqueous blues and greens, reminiscent of underwater scenes, long neglected sites of lostness and loss, the kind of world inhabited by forgotten shipwrecks. This shadowy opacity seems a fitting introduction to the poems contained within, a nod to the idea of landscapes you think you know but which, diving beneath the surface find you are unfamiliar with after all. This impression limns the sense that a closer reading of your surroundings is required, so sit back and pay attention if you want to in some sense know your (?) country.' (Introduction)
'Know Your Country by Kerri Shying, Puncher & Wattmann, 2020, was launched by Keri Glastonbury at the Lass O’Gowrie Hotel, Newcastle on Saturday 28 November 2020. This is s slightly edited version of that speech.'
