Fishing for Lightning
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Fishing for Lightning

The Spark of Poetry

  1. 297 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fishing for Lightning

The Spark of Poetry

About this book

Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's celebrated columns on contemporary Australian poetry. In fifty illuminating and lively short essays on fifty poets, Holland-Batt offers a masterclass in how to read and love poetry, opening up the music of language, form, and poetic technique in her casual and conversational yet deeply intelligent style. From the villanelle to the verse novel, the readymade and the remix to the sonnet, Holland-Batt's essays range across the breadth of contemporary poetry, but also delve into the richness of poetic and literary history, connecting the contemporary to the ancient. Dazzling in its erudition, but always accessible and entertaining, Fishing for Lightning convinces us of the power of poetry to change our lives.

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Information

Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9780702266553
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Author Biography
  2. Also by Sarah Holland-Batt
  3. Half-title Page
  4. Imprint Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. World Poetry Day: On Judith Beveridge
  9. Concrete Poetry: On Stuart Cooke
  10. Poetry and Science: On Tricia Dearborn
  11. The Ode: On Jill Jones
  12. Incongruous Pleasures: On Aidan Coleman
  13. The Elegy: On Brendan Ryan
  14. The New Confessionalism: On Omar Sakr
  15. The Sonnet: On Judith Bishop
  16. The Movement of Metaphor: On Anthony Lawrence
  17. The Villanelle: On Sarah Day
  18. The Long Poem: On Peter Boyle
  19. A Poem for Winter: On Tracy Ryan
  20. The Poem’s Speaker: On Prithvi Varatharajan
  21. Mathematics and Constraint: On Jordie Albiston
  22. A History of Place: On Lisa Gorton
  23. Indigenous Poetry: On Fire Front
  24. The Sonnet Sequence: On Keri Glastonbury
  25. The Readymade: On Toby Fitch
  26. Decoding Difficulty: On LK Holt
  27. Animal Language: On Siobhan Hodge
  28. The Sestina: On Michael Farrell
  29. The Fragment: On Antigone Kefala
  30. Influence and Conversation: On Caitlin Maling
  31. Sound and Meter: On Felicity Plunkett
  32. Questions of Style: On Simon West
  33. Repetition and Rhetoric: On Michael Sharkey
  34. Poetry and Witness: On Jennifer Harrison
  35. Symbolism: On Graeme Miles
  36. The Pantoum: On Emma Lew
  37. The Line: On Robert Adamson
  38. The Anagram: On Jaya Savige
  39. The Epistle: On Charmaine Papertalk Green
  40. The Verse Novel: On Luke Best
  41. Lyric Address: On Louise Glück
  42. Ekphrasis: On Laurie Duggan
  43. The Prose Poem: On Maria Takolander
  44. Poetry and Landscape: On Martin Johnston
  45. Formal Verse: On Stephen Edgar
  46. The Epic: On ∏.O.
  47. Myth and Religion: On Norman Erikson Pasaribu
  48. The Verse Biography: On John A Scott
  49. Reclaiming History: On Jeanine Leane
  50. The Haiku: On Beverley Farmer
  51. The Political Poem: On Barry Hill
  52. The Love Poem: On Adrienne Eberhard
  53. The Mystery of Language: On Meredith Wattison
  54. Poetry and Memory: On Todd Turner
  55. The Satirical Impulse: On Ed Wright
  56. Travel Poetry: On Rebecca Edwards
  57. Poetry and Choreography: On Jessica L Wilkinson
  58. Notes on Sources
  59. Acknowledgements
  60. Index