Böcker av Mark Tredinnick

This is a keystone work in the oeuvre of an accomplished Australian poet. This book is a beginning, a guide to how we might learn to be human in this age of the new, and also a culmination of the author's work, to the present.

A Gathered Distance is a sustained and elegant lyric offering, weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty, which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as “a most subtle orchestration of loss”. The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis, Mark’s work affirms the value of “lyric resistance”, poetry’s mysterious way of making sense of things:“When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric, the personal can become the human, the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances, a habitat of healing.” – Mark Tredinnick.From the title poem:                                                      "...Be a garden in a city,    And be all the love you’ve lost. From all the unpropitious Pieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest half A life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, and                                                father all your orphan fears; hold them    Near, as a father might..."

Profiles of four American writers showing how they interact with the landscapes they live and write in

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