Fragments

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Antigone
Kefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for the
intensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small number
of poems she has published, each carefully worked, each magical or menacing in
its effects. Fragments is her first
collection of new poems in almost twenty years, since the publication of New and Selected Poems in 1998, and
possibly her last. It follows her prose work Sydney Journals (Giramondo, 2008) of which one critic wrote, 'Kefala can render the music of the moment so perfectly, she leaves
one almost singing with the pleasure of it'. This skill in capturing the moment
is just as evident in Fragments,
though the territory is often darker now, as the poet patrols the liminal
spaces between life and death, alert to the energies which lie in wait there.
And such energies! "Up, in the blue depth / a bird cut with its wings / the
light / such silk, that fell / and rose, heavily, / singing through the air.'

Antigone
Kefala has written four works of fiction, including The First Journey,
The Island and Summer Visit, and four poetry
collections, The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebookand Absence: New and Selected Poems as well as the non-fiction work Sydney Journals. Born in Romania of
Greek parents, she lived in Greece and New Zealand before coming to Sydney.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781925336191
Published: September 2016

Number of pages: 96
Width: 150 mm
Height: 210 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co