Snowy Owl single work   poetry   "You know everything"
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Snowy Owl
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'If climate change results in habitat changes and it affects the

    lemmings, it will show up in the snowy owls because 90 percent of

    their diet is lemmings. The owls are the key to everything else.

    —Denver Holt'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poems 2013 : Volume of the Australian Poetry Members Anthology Jessica Friedmann (editor), Dennis Haskell (editor), Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Melbourne : Australian Poetry , 2013 6858889 2013 anthology poetry Melbourne : Australian Poetry , 2013 pg. 91
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Wildlife of Berlin Philip Neilsen , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018 12947828 2018 selected work poetry

    'Neilsen’s intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious and unerringly wry, these poems offer us forensically clear-eyed perspectives on subjects ranging from environmental degradation and the impending collapse of fragile ecosystems in the anthropocene, to unconventional and irreverent portraits of figures drawn from literature and politics and beyond. Neilsen’s poems are miraculously both deeply ethical and deeply comic; they surprise and delight with the irreverence of their critiques, while always keeping an eye on the tragic consequences of human folly. Above all, they ask us to sit still, to pay attention, to re-examine our basic precepts with equal measures of reason, wit, imagination and empathy. Wildlife of Berlin is a superbly crafted, incisive and urgent collection of new work from one of Australia’s most original poets, and deserving of the wide audience I am sure it will find. These are necessary poems for incendiary times.

    - Sarah Holland-Batt'  (Publication summary)

    Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018
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