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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Beginning in Sight
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'Beginning in Sight is Theodore Ell’s first poetry collection. It brings together work written over more than ten years, tapping into the memories, life-stories and mirror-images that resist time and recouple bygone experience to the drifting world of today. The poems branch out from Ell’s original home of Sydney into its hinterland, the coast and the Hunter, snatching moments of respite and pleasure in troubled times, before finding new bearings in the Canberra region. Haunted by the presence of vanished lives and histories, these are poems of perseverance, endurance and a past that seems to know what is coming.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Recent Work Press , 2022 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
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      • Published July 2022.
      ISBN: 9780645180862

Works about this Work

Will Druce Reviews Michael J. Leach and Theodore Ell Will Druce , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of Natural Philosophies Michael J. Leach , 2022 selected work poetry ; Beginning in Sight Theodore Ell , 2022 selected work poetry
Theodore Ell : Beginning in Sight Martin Duwell , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 17 2022;

— Review of Beginning in Sight Theodore Ell , 2022 selected work poetry

'Theodore Ell’s book has all the features that one hopes to find in a first book of poems: a distinctive manner, a distinctive tone of voice and a distinctive view not only of things in the world but of what a poem might make of these things. There is also an avoidance of the conventional styles and solutions that one is likely to find in contemporary Australian poems although the book’s title, which works at a number of possible puns, does use a technique common among poets. “Beginning in Sight” can be read as “Beginning Insight”, but its more apparent meaning is that we should expect the sense of sight to be the dominant one in the poems that follow – it will be where they begin. And this is certainly established in the book’s first poem, “Mooring” – whose title also suggests that it will deal with the way that the poems are anchored – which begins with two stanzas of very precise visual registration:..' (Introduction)

Labours of Disruption : Two Bold Poetry Collections Rose Lucas , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 446 2022; (p. 47-48)

— Review of Beginning in Sight Theodore Ell , 2022 selected work poetry ; Trap Landscape Nick Powell , 2022 selected work poetry

'One of the many life-challenging things that poetry can do is to prise open unexpected spaces and take us somewhere entirely unanticipated, whether it be in terms of how we live, how we understand the world, or how we link the fabric of textual utterance with that of our lived experience. These two new poetry collections set about this labour of disruption in very different ways, demonstrating some of the pathways available between poet and reader.' (Introduction)

Labours of Disruption : Two Bold Poetry Collections Rose Lucas , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 446 2022; (p. 47-48)

— Review of Beginning in Sight Theodore Ell , 2022 selected work poetry ; Trap Landscape Nick Powell , 2022 selected work poetry

'One of the many life-challenging things that poetry can do is to prise open unexpected spaces and take us somewhere entirely unanticipated, whether it be in terms of how we live, how we understand the world, or how we link the fabric of textual utterance with that of our lived experience. These two new poetry collections set about this labour of disruption in very different ways, demonstrating some of the pathways available between poet and reader.' (Introduction)

Theodore Ell : Beginning in Sight Martin Duwell , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 17 2022;

— Review of Beginning in Sight Theodore Ell , 2022 selected work poetry

'Theodore Ell’s book has all the features that one hopes to find in a first book of poems: a distinctive manner, a distinctive tone of voice and a distinctive view not only of things in the world but of what a poem might make of these things. There is also an avoidance of the conventional styles and solutions that one is likely to find in contemporary Australian poems although the book’s title, which works at a number of possible puns, does use a technique common among poets. “Beginning in Sight” can be read as “Beginning Insight”, but its more apparent meaning is that we should expect the sense of sight to be the dominant one in the poems that follow – it will be where they begin. And this is certainly established in the book’s first poem, “Mooring” – whose title also suggests that it will deal with the way that the poems are anchored – which begins with two stanzas of very precise visual registration:..' (Introduction)

Will Druce Reviews Michael J. Leach and Theodore Ell Will Druce , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of Natural Philosophies Michael J. Leach , 2022 selected work poetry ; Beginning in Sight Theodore Ell , 2022 selected work poetry

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