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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Cyprian
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'Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various forms

'From poems of desire and sexual longing to poems of love in the face of death, The Cyprian explores the joy and heartbreak love weaves into our lives. The collection confronts some of our primary questions about love: how is it possible to accept the death of the beloved? What role does deception play in love? When does love become a force of exploitation? The collection is composed of five parts, reflecting the different aspects of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty — a complexity which is also implicit in the ambiguity of the book’s title, ‘the Cyprian’.

'Crutchfield trained as a classicist, and her poetry combines conversational idioms with mythic visions of human relationship, ‘longing and its/ fierce metamorphosis’. Elegies, love poems and imagistic snapshots mix with wide open epistolary verse. Her poetry reclaims the linguistic power and range of allusion found in late romantic poets like Christopher Brennan and Francis Webb, bringing them to bear on contemporary female experience.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2023 .
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      Extent: 80p.
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      • Published September 2023

      ISBN: 9781922725776

Works about this Work

Rosanna E. Licari : Earlier; Amy Crutchfield: The Cyprian Martin Duwell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 18 2023;

— Review of Earlier Rosanna Licari , 2023 selected work novel ; The Cyprian Amy Crutchfield , 2023 selected work poetry

'Books of poetry are usually more than a random dump of poems. They, like the poems they contain, tend to have a structure, sometimes loose and sometimes very tight. Its function might be positive: to show the poems up in the best light by putting the strongest ones first, for example. And it might be defensive: to resist a charge of randomness or to place poems near each other so that they give each other some support and deepen the context of any single work. Both these books – Rosanna E. Licari’s Earlier and Amy Crutchfield’s The Cyprian – raise the issue of book structure: it’s likely to be one of the things that a reader notices early on.' (Introduction)

Rosanna E. Licari : Earlier; Amy Crutchfield: The Cyprian Martin Duwell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 18 2023;

— Review of Earlier Rosanna Licari , 2023 selected work novel ; The Cyprian Amy Crutchfield , 2023 selected work poetry

'Books of poetry are usually more than a random dump of poems. They, like the poems they contain, tend to have a structure, sometimes loose and sometimes very tight. Its function might be positive: to show the poems up in the best light by putting the strongest ones first, for example. And it might be defensive: to resist a charge of randomness or to place poems near each other so that they give each other some support and deepen the context of any single work. Both these books – Rosanna E. Licari’s Earlier and Amy Crutchfield’s The Cyprian – raise the issue of book structure: it’s likely to be one of the things that a reader notices early on.' (Introduction)

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