Circle Work

$25.00 inc GST

Product Description

The poems in Circle Work are concerned with the everyday, the here-and-now, and how this can feed the imagination. Grounded in the physical immediacy and imagery of suburban space, these poems transform the apparently mundane into a rich and engaging poetry. Lowe’s quietly understated poems shift comfortably between multiple registers, fusing inventive poetic strategies with quotidian experience while experimenting with a fresh take on what is possible in the lyric.

REVIEWS

ABR

“Just over fifty years since the death of the great American poet William Carlos Williams, it is pleasing to see so much of his spirit still alive in Cameron Lowe’s third collection, Circle Work. Williams was often short-changed by poets who, mistakenly, thought his short, ‘photographic’ poems easy to imitate. Lowe, by contrast, fully understands the importance of close observation and imagination. He understands, too, the necessity for skilled syntax and how a poem may consist wholly of details which are not in the least ‘poetic’.”

GEOFF PAGE, Australian Book Review

Menu