Victoria and Tony 1: A Useful Fan single work   poetry   "Queen Victoria woke up nears the embers"
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Victoria and Tony 1: A Useful Fan
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    y separately published work icon Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2014 8106784 2014 selected work poetry

    'Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literature Award, the richest literary prize in Australia Shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry Prize Drones and Phantoms is a powerful successor to Maiden's prize-winning collection Liquid Nitrogen, and again features her unique interweaving of the personal and the political, in the use of intimate and public poetic modes within each poem and within the collection as a whole. The poems are in fact conversations, not only between the poet and the reader, but between historical and political figures, such as Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, Tanya Pliberesek and Jane Austen, Mandela and Obama, Queen Victoria and Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who come to life in Maiden's poems to discuss their anxieties and ethical insecurities. There are also poems on the Cypriot financial crisis, Jimmy Hoffa, Judith Wright, Julia Gillard, the Copenhagen giraffe killing and Russian power in the Crimea. Maiden is unique both for the interrogative power of her poems, and the sense of vulnerability they express, in their subjects, and in the poet herself.' (Publication summary)

    Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2014
    pg. 22-23
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