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Pitt Street Poetry December 2013 | Paperback with French Flaps

Pitt Street Poetry
December 2013 | Paperback with French Flaps

 

Mark Tredinnick’s second collection of poems. The book entrenched the reputation the poet as “one of our great poets of place,” as Judith Beveridge phrased it; “not just of geographic place, but of the spiritual and moral landscapes as well.” 

            This large book includes many poems at the heart of Tredinnick’s work: “On Hammock Hill,” “It Matters How We Go,” “Catching Fire,” “Wombat Vedas,” “The Kingfisher,” “Thirteen Winds,” Soft Bombs,” “Margaret River Sestets,” “The Ministry of Dance.”

 

“In virtuosic syntax and with breathtaking fluency, Tredinnick makes the landscape flame and sing. And then there is the sheer specific beauty of what’s displayed and contemplated in his work.”           

—Sinead Morrissey

 

“Tredinnick has a tenderly erotic way of taking things. Every poem is a love poem.”

—Philip Gross.

 

“This is a bold, big-thinking poetry, in which ancient themes (especially the theme of our human relationship with landscape) are recast and rekindled.”   

—Andrew Motion