Helen Lambert Helen Lambert i(A32598 works by)
Born: Established: Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Echoland Helen Lambert , Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2018 12913983 2018 selected work poetry

'Please excuse these pages. Every poem is a disaster and every poetic form is an insult to poetry, to proper measure and harmony. The tone is particularly off, and sometimes it seems like the author is the kind who presents ugliness as beauty and beauty as ugliness and everything is so loud and underlined until there is nothing that is not. What point is there in reading anything like that? Or, for that matter, in reading anything at all? Of Baudelaire’s prose poems, Turgenev advised, 'do not run through these poems one after the other: you will probably get bored – and the book will fall from your hands.' If only this collection were so poetic. Alas, these poems prowl around hoping to snag someone. And in such a distempered way, really, who could be moved by a single word or letter, especially when they’re tugging on your sleeve like a slavering dog. And that’s not the half of it. You will find these poems, or whatever they are, forced into an arrangement which is as false as any bouquet that has been idly ripped from nature, and already stinks as it lands in cellophane or a vase. Stinks of nothing but the history of prattle: poems, prose, writing, from Ovid to Beckett with many others stuck in between. So what – we all like pretending to be someone we are not. And these pages are written in the shadow of Echo, who rambled on and on, outlived Narcissus, outlived her own body, until she was only voice – a great, echoing voice, the parrot that is us, and which won’t go away.'

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1 The Birch Grove Grove, or Salle 21 i "The room is dark and footfalls stop or start.", Helen Lambert , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 7 no. 2 2017;
1 The Birch Grove Helen Lambert , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 7 no. 2 2017;
1 The Altercation But i "Is it really true that one can’t change?", Helen Lambert , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 40.0 2012;
1 The Australian Language Forest : Les Murray’s Translations from the Natural World Helen Lambert , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , June no. 19 2010;
1 Flat Jazz i "at full blast, Jazz", Helen Lambert , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Extempore , November no. 5 2010; (p. 76)
1 [Review] Writing the Nation : Patrick White and the Indigene Helen Lambert , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 20 no. 1 2008; (p. 157-161)

— Review of Writing the Nation : Patrick White and the Indigene Cynthia Van Den Driesen , 2009 single work criticism
1 A Draft Preamble : Les Murray and the Politics of Poetry Helen Lambert , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 80 2004; (p. 5-14, notes 231-232)
In answer to the question 'Can poets or their work ever escape the political?', Lambert aims 'to explore the problematic relationship between poetry and prose' by turning 'first to Murray's draft preamble to the Australian constitution, as well as his draft Oath of Allegiance for the then federal government.' She then examines Murray's poetry 'to see whether his politics can be kept separate from his poetry' and finally argues 'that poetry cannot be explicated from the political, and that Murray's work only furthers this claim.' (p.5)
1 y separately published work icon Voice Over : New Poets 9 Collected Volume Ross Donlon , Jan Teagle Kapetas , Helen Lambert , Patricia O'Heare , Alicia Sometimes , Five Islands Press , 2003 Z1250365 2003 anthology poetry 'Six poets who have been publishing their work, in some cases for many years, present their first book in collections available separately or here, in one consolidated volume.' --back cover.(Libraries Australia record).
1 How Quickly the Dispossessed Turn i "into pictures without background,", Helen Lambert , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 79 2003; (p. 174)
1 A Short History of Edith Trist, Who Came from a Long Line of Spanish Pirates Helen Lambert , 2003 single work prose
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 79 2003; (p. 173)
2 All I Ever Wanted of Love i "was a bowl of musk sticks", Helen Lambert , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 29 no. 2 2003; (p. 308)

— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 79 2003; (p. 174)
1 3 y separately published work icon Venus Steps Out Helen Lambert , Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 2003 Z1061206 2003 selected work poetry
1 Where the War Begins i "Tonight you held me with your light hand", Helen Lambert , 2002- single work poetry
— Appears in: Poems About War 2002-;
1 The Woman You Once Knew i "Her body has changed 273 billion times", Helen Lambert , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 28 no. 2 2002; (p. 153-154)
1 Judge Schreber, Unmanned i "All of Oxford Street would love", Helen Lambert , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: Jacket , December no. 15 2001;
1 11pm i "The orange's last curl of flesh", Helen Lambert , 1995 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Author , Winter vol. 27 no. 2 1995; (p. 21)
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