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Willing Eye, The
by Tracy Ryan
Price $18.95 
- About the Book
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Tracy Ryan’s The Willing Eye is a book open to the shocks and pleasures of seeing and daily life. It is driven less by a turning away from ‘the life indoors’ (so powerfully harnessed in her previous work) than by a fascination with the shifting and precarious boundaries between self and world.
In these poems the nettle sting, the splinter, the milk tooth and the lovebite, the act of translation, are borderline experiences that become sacramental, whilst physical states like myopia, childbirth, speed and prostration, create their own knowledge as vital as what the eye takes in and the heart grieves over. - Categories
- Poetry, Award Winning
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- Awards
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Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Award, 2000
- ISBN11
- 1 86368 239 2
- ISBN13
- 9 781863 682398
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B Format (198 x 128mm)
- Pages
- 88
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things