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DVD includes: Ben Frater reads Hermeneutic & The Argument at Made Pride 2006 ; audio poems read by Ben Frater in first half of 2003 by John Hawke (..."the audio poems may not equate quite with the written poems and indeed may not appear in the book at all" - p. 140)
Book launched in Melbourne at the Victorian Trades Hall, Carlton, by John Hawke on 7 July 2011 and launched in Sydney at Gleebooks, Glebe, on 14 August 2011.
Dedication: For YEK,
Rabid unicorn / in a small glass box / Oddly salubrious / and white / and deformed / prepares for heaven / by / raising / on bent leg /
Love Benjamin
The coincidence of reality and mind takes on many guises throughout [the poems] but the reader luckily does not have to interrogate the poet's biography or try to identify those moments where the worlds of thought and experience crossover : the reader can happily be swept along with the modulations of the verse. For one of Frater's abilities was to allow the reader to 'be in' the moment of the poem, and to give over to the rising and falling rhythms and assonances of a poem... -- Tim Cahill, 2011 (from) Benjamin Frater, an afterword
Contents
* Contents derived from the Wollongong,Wollongong area,Illawarra,South Coast,New South Wales,:Grand Parade Poets,2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
