'A dazzling new poetry collection from award-winning poet Judith Bishop, a conclusion to her trilogy focused on time.
'Perched on a tablecloth with glasses
for a summer drink- life, on its haunches
like a kitten, thoughtful.
Extending a paw- What happens if?
'Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grieve the daily devastations of war, extinction, illness, death, and disconnection, yet find their way back into clearings transfigured by the energies of art, children, and the sheer incandescence of existence.
'These fiercely empathetic poems range deep into the woods of present, past and future time. With visionary imagination and rapt musicality, this concluding volume in Bishop's award-winning trilogy on time sings in the mind long after reading.' (Publication summary)
Judith Bishop in Conversation
Lisa Gorton
(interviewer),
2024
28524126
2024
single work
podcast
interview
'In this episode, a recording taken from the launch of Judith Bishop’s Circadia.
'These fiercely empathetic poems range deep into the woods of present, past and future time. With visionary imagination and rapt musicality, this concluding volume in Bishop's award-winning trilogy on time sings in the mind long after reading.' (Production summary)
'In Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance, Joseph Acquisto borrows a definition of poetry from Phillipe Jaccottet: ‘that key that you must always keep on losing’. Attempting to know its subject, poetry reveals that there is always more to know. But the French poet’s metaphor, for Acquisto, does not mean ‘simple contingency’. It suggests ‘a complex play of certainty and doubt … that actively resists coming to a conclusion’. We might say that poetry expresses the friction in human experience between time and permanence.' (Introduction)
'In Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance, Joseph Acquisto borrows a definition of poetry from Phillipe Jaccottet: ‘that key that you must always keep on losing’. Attempting to know its subject, poetry reveals that there is always more to know. But the French poet’s metaphor, for Acquisto, does not mean ‘simple contingency’. It suggests ‘a complex play of certainty and doubt … that actively resists coming to a conclusion’. We might say that poetry expresses the friction in human experience between time and permanence.' (Introduction)
Judith Bishop in Conversation
Lisa Gorton
(interviewer),
2024
28524126
2024
single work
podcast
interview
'In this episode, a recording taken from the launch of Judith Bishop’s Circadia.
'These fiercely empathetic poems range deep into the woods of present, past and future time. With visionary imagination and rapt musicality, this concluding volume in Bishop's award-winning trilogy on time sings in the mind long after reading.' (Production summary)
