Edge Music

by Stuart Cooke

Overview

Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes – be they geographical or historical. Responding to a complex, globally engaged nation, this innovative book openly displays the author's eagerness to write in an extremely eclectic range of styles and forms. It reveres the voices of the past, and grants them new life in the blinding sun of the present.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014645751
Publisher:	IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Publication date:	06/23/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	90
File size:	426 KB

About the Author

Stuart was born in 1980 and grew up in Sydney and Hobart. He has travelled extensively, and lived in Chile, Mexico and England. In 2011 he completed a PhD in Indigenous Australian and Chilean poetics at Macquarie University. Stuart's poems and translations have been published widely in Australia, and in the USA and UK.

His chapbook, Corrosions, was published by Vagabond Press in 2010 and his translation of Juan Garrido Salgado's Eleven Poems, September 1973 was published by Picaro Press in 2007.

Edge Music was Highly Commended in the IP Picks First Book category.

Editorial Reviews

Cooke also chooses his subject matter well. As a traveller, he takes the reader to interesting places they have most likely never been before. Then Cooke often treats his subject matter very intelligently. A winning combination. With Edge Music, Cooke has invited the reader to engage with a book that is assured, unrushed and without a hint of pretension.

Michael Byrne

He never loses the capacity to dream and meditate and, most powerfully, to tell things as they are. When most local he can draw his poetry from a wide awareness of modern poetry, not least from beyond the English language tradition. Far-ranging, he can return his poems to the immediate context of Australian voice and manner. Edge Music reveals a strong new poetic presence, a presence already very assured and one that is already offering a true moment of enrichment to Australian poetry.

Martin Harrison

The tones are urgent, good-humoured, and humble; the lines of a thoughtful and involved poet. Edge Music is spatially epic and technically diverse. In other words, a sexy country. Take it to bed.

Michael Farrell

'A new world is a new mind', William Carlos Williams says. Aerating the mind is this book's project. The work looks exciting on the page, and it fulfils our expectations. It manages to reinstate lyrical beauty and negotiates between opacity and lucidity. His poems achieve the marvellous.

Robert Gray