languageslips - Konrad, Christopher

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Résumé :
A collection of a myriad manifestations of language: many places from the heart, individuals, beasts or experiences which inhabit this country. An inter-poesy designed to provide a dialogical fabric of colours, senses, images, and emotions that weave across the Australian time-scape. The book is peopled with children, on and off-stage ground breakers, the swell of the Indian and Southern Oceans, myths as its verses reach from west to east and south. This work speaks loudly and with the rich texture of the quotidian, the grand sweep of land and sea, forbidden and darkly coveted love. It has quiet corners of prayer or Diogenesian exclamation and steals or borrows from distant and near sources such as the Bible, Kundera, Harwood, Celan, Sei Shonagon and broken piano players. It uses many voice-styles to convey the vastness and depth of this human place and in particular its language....

Sommaire:
Christopher is a Western Australian writer. He has co?authored several poetry books, including Sandfire (Sunline Press, 2012) and Breath of the Sea (2012) with other WA poets. He has poems and short stories published in many journals, anthologies and online including Westerly, Southerly, Regime, Page Seventeen, Wet Ink, Creatrix, Swamp, Axon, Island, Cordite, Tamba. Along with many other awards he received First Prize for the Tom Collins Poetry Award (2009 & 2018) and the Todhunter Literary Award (2012) for a short story. He is published in Best Australian Poems 2013. He completed his doctorate in creative writing (2012) at Edith Cowan University. His books of poetry include Argot, (Pomonal, 2016) and Blind Summits (with Ross Bolleter) (Sunline Press, 2020). His latest collection of short stories The Voyeur (Balboa) was published in 2021. He is currently completed a collection of essay? meditations on being a migrant child....