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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Koel
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'I wrote most of this book on campus in Singapore, surrounded by a ring of jungle that couldn’t encroach as fast as it was being thinned out. The circles and mosses of that location tilt and transect others – Auckland, Bicol, an empty Bangkok penthouse, and somewhere else, entirely see-through. It seemed important to be as close to sleep as possible, so I closed windows and wore headphones. Not to shut things out or make them stranger, but to soften and modulate the tensions of exchange.

'In Bangkok, excavators swim up and down the canals. They float on barges and scoop themselves through the water. The water pools and resists, carrying places to places on its way.

'In the ‘epoch of simultaneity’ not all spaces are equally accessible to thought or description. Rituals of immersion, of the maze and the gate, may not open anything but the body’s ability to accumulate and to disperse, to be near and far, here and there. Memory, presence and imagination fold and run together. I was looking for gaps to step through, for ways both forward and back.

–Jen Crawford' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Cordite Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: xii, 81p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2016
      ISBN: 0994259689, 9780994259684 (pbk)
      Series: y separately published work icon CorditeBooks : Series 1 Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2016 10421282 2016 series - publisher poetry Number in series: 8

Works about this Work

Gemma Mahadeo Reviews Koel by Jen Crawford Gemma E. Mahadeo , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2018;

— Review of Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry
The Call of the Nomadic Rose Lucas , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;

'Koel is Jen Crawford’s third poetry collection and it clearly demonstrates the development of a challenging but highly rewarding poetic voice. This is a poet both confident and experimental, who is pushing at the boundaries of place and movement, what is remembered and an immersive present tense, the human subject and the ‘environment’, what we know and what we don’t. In the preface, Crawford suggests: ‘I was looking for gaps to step through, for ways both forward and back’. Koel catapaults the reader through these gaps of uncertainty and possibility.'  (Introduction)

Poetry's Biodiversity Lucas Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 66-67)

— Review of She Woke & Rose Autumn Royal , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Spelter to Pewter Javant Biarujia , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetic Art of Moving Pictures Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 22)

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
A Whiff of Gunpowder Greg McLaren , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 2 2016; (p. 70-82)

'Just one of the many really interesting trails that thread through the seeming wilds of Australian poetry over the last two or so decades (cripes, has it been that long?) is the slow, constant morphing one of Cordite. Sydney poets Adrian Wiggins and Peter Minter, founders of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, launched their first issue in 1997. After five issues in a broadsheet format and an oscillating editorship that included Margaret Cronin and Jennifer Kremmer, the editorship was handed over in 2005 to David Prater, whose key innovation was to appoint guest editors for mini- and, later, entire issues.'

(Introduction)

Poetic Art of Moving Pictures Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 22)

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetry's Biodiversity Lucas Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 66-67)

— Review of She Woke & Rose Autumn Royal , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Spelter to Pewter Javant Biarujia , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Gemma Mahadeo Reviews Koel by Jen Crawford Gemma E. Mahadeo , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2018;

— Review of Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry
A Whiff of Gunpowder Greg McLaren , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 2 2016; (p. 70-82)

'Just one of the many really interesting trails that thread through the seeming wilds of Australian poetry over the last two or so decades (cripes, has it been that long?) is the slow, constant morphing one of Cordite. Sydney poets Adrian Wiggins and Peter Minter, founders of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, launched their first issue in 1997. After five issues in a broadsheet format and an oscillating editorship that included Margaret Cronin and Jennifer Kremmer, the editorship was handed over in 2005 to David Prater, whose key innovation was to appoint guest editors for mini- and, later, entire issues.'

(Introduction)

The Call of the Nomadic Rose Lucas , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;

'Koel is Jen Crawford’s third poetry collection and it clearly demonstrates the development of a challenging but highly rewarding poetic voice. This is a poet both confident and experimental, who is pushing at the boundaries of place and movement, what is remembered and an immersive present tense, the human subject and the ‘environment’, what we know and what we don’t. In the preface, Crawford suggests: ‘I was looking for gaps to step through, for ways both forward and back’. Koel catapaults the reader through these gaps of uncertainty and possibility.'  (Introduction)

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