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A Raiders Guide

96 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published April 2008
ISBN 9781920882365

A Raiders Guide

Michael Farrell

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Michael Farrell’s new collection is ‘a raid on the inarticulate’, but not as T.S. Eliot intended – it liberates energies which exist within language, though they may not easily be spoken, or spoken about.

The poems are composed through the application of principles familiar from contemporary music – sampling and remixing, repetition and substitution, permutation and chance. This gives them a formal quality, so that one can think of them as concept-poems, songs for the page. At the same time the reader registers the pressure of feeling: wonderful lines and phrases emerge, expressions of tenderness or vulnerability.

Michael Farrell’s poetry gestures towards secret and codified significance while carrying an emotional intensity that will resonate with readers.

Farrell’s ear is as warm as an analog synthesiser.Aaron McCollough 

About the Author

Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, NSW in 1965, and has lived in Melbourne since 1990. Michael has a PhD in literary studies from the University of Melbourne and is a practising artist, as well as a poet. Awards include the 2018 Judith Calanthe Queensland Literary Award for I Love Poetry, and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize for ‘Beautiful Mother’. Michael has performed and published internationally, and has been given residencies in Italy, Slovenia, Japan and China, as well as giving guest lectures in China and Chile. 

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