True Thoughts |
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| Author:
| Brown, Pam |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84471-515-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | Salt Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $26.35 |
Book Description:
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True Thoughts follows the success of Pam Brown's last major collection Dear Deliria awarded the NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry in 2004. True Thoughts includes poems of sharply delineated streetscapes, imagined havens, distant places, encounters with friends, ideas, history, and a kind of fragmented urbanity. Brown's writing is deftly ironic, and affects a sense of the ludicrous in the face of mortality, as the poems attempt to fathom the question 'how to live?' alongside the larger one...
More DescriptionTrue Thoughts follows the success of Pam Brown's last major collection Dear Deliria awarded the NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry in 2004. True Thoughts includes poems of sharply delineated streetscapes, imagined havens, distant places, encounters with friends, ideas, history, and a kind of fragmented urbanity. Brown's writing is deftly ironic, and affects a sense of the ludicrous in the face of mortality, as the poems attempt to fathom the question 'how to live?' alongside the larger one 'how to live now?'