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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Phantom Limb
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'David Musgrave’s poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual – with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in.

'Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly. Typically they move from the moment of observation to make transformative connections with emotional and imaginative states: the continual freshness of approach from one to another of these poems is a hallmark.

'Other poems meet human situations more immediately. The self, or some other, is substantiated with a generosity of feeling — and this becomes a startling quality within the strands of satire in some poems, notably ‘The Baby Boomers’. Generosity also drives — as much as an elegant form does — ‘Young Montaigne Goes Riding’. Those two extended poems are peaks in a book of exuberant curiosity.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Jill Dimond & Peter Kirkpatrick
  • Epigraph: God be gracious to Musgrave, for he is a Merchant - Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno, fragment C

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2008
    • St Kilda, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: John Leonard Press , 2010 .
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      Extent: 68p.
      Note/s:
      • These poems, which won the 2008 Australian Capital Territory Poetry Award, Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Australian Poet, were revised prior to publication.
      ISBN: 9780980526998 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Untitled Josh Dubrau , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 1 2011; (p. 229-235)

— Review of Grass Notes Sarah Day , 2009 selected work poetry ; Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
David Musgrave : Phantom Limb Martin Duwell , 2010 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
Kylie Rose Reviews Phantom Limb by David Musgrave Kylie Rose , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 8 2010;

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
Ingenuity Breaks the Norm Geoff Page , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 July 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
Metaphor Man Andrew Sant , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 66)

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
Metaphor Man Andrew Sant , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 66)

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
Ingenuity Breaks the Norm Geoff Page , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 July 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
Kylie Rose Reviews Phantom Limb by David Musgrave Kylie Rose , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 8 2010;

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
David Musgrave : Phantom Limb Martin Duwell , 2010 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;

— Review of Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
Untitled Josh Dubrau , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 1 2011; (p. 229-235)

— Review of Grass Notes Sarah Day , 2009 selected work poetry ; Phantom Limb David Musgrave , 2008 selected work poetry
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