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Barefoot Speech
by John Mateer
Price $18.95 
- About the Book
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‘Although this is a poetry interested in, and capable of, the ecstatic, it is kept disciplined by toughness and a sense of the reality, and the challenge, of suffering. Too restless to look for totems, the process of experience remains its vital poetic concern. The poetry is often risky and experimental, yet its experiments never seem calculated or part of some project or manifesto … the restless jumping from place to place pays off with a real liveness and emotional electricity, an interrogative energy that Mateer can switch at will to make creative connections among disparate topics and experiences.’ — Tom Bishop, Antipodes
- Categories
- Award Winning, Poetry
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- Awards
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Winner, Victorian Premier’s Book Award, 2001
- ISBN11
- 1 86368 266 X
- ISBN13
- 9 781863 682664
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B+ Format (205 x 138mm)
- Pages
- 72
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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