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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems
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'The poems and non-fiction collected in Sputnik’s Cousin rinse, relent and tumble in the slipstream of modernity. The indefatigable nature of objects – how they reverberate in the proximity of others and become polished from anachronistic histories retold – hum a progress charged by humanity’s witless pursuit of technology and civility. MacCarter’s poetry is a menagerie of Rube Goldberg contraptions; invoking idiom, definition, and refraction while harnessing the slope, speed and gravity of language to set in motion these absurdist machines. A light switch is turned off, but not by means of a flick: it took fracking in Russia, the building of a sand castle and a monastic jeep to do so. These are maximalist poems whose syntax is coerced through yoga ... poems of humour, warning and visceral sound.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    for Penelope Judith

    Elizabeth Goodes

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 141p.
      Note/s:
      • Launched by Pam Brown, Thursday 7th August 2014 at Gleebooks, Sydney.
      ISBN: 9781921924675

Works about this Work

Robbie Coburn Reviews Sputnik’s Cousin by Kent MacCarter and Intercolonial by Stephen Oliver Robbie Coburn , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2015;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay ; Intercolonial Stephen Oliver , 2013 selected work poetry
Kent MacCarter Sputnik’s Cousin Siobhan Hodge , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , July no. 29 2015;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Blushing Hot Angela Gardner , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 12 2015;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Kent MacCarter, Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems A. J. Carruthers , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 231-233)

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Sputnik’s Cousin by Kent MacCarter Dan Disney , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 16 2014;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Who Is Kent MacCarter? Pam Brown Launches ‘Sputnik’s Cousin’ by Kent MacCarter Pamela Brown , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June - September no. 12 2014;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Sputnik’s Cousin by Kent MacCarter Dan Disney , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 16 2014;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Kent MacCarter, Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems A. J. Carruthers , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 231-233)

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Blushing Hot Angela Gardner , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 12 2015;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
Kent MacCarter Sputnik’s Cousin Siobhan Hodge , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , July no. 29 2015;

— Review of Sputnik's Cousin : New Poems Kent MacCarter , 2014 selected work poetry essay
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