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Land Whisperings: Poems And Palimpsests, Glen Phillips
Land Whisperings: Poems And Palimpsests, Glen Phillips
ECU Books
Most of the poems in this book were included in the poetry section of my PhD in Creative Writing in 2006 under the title of “Land Whisperings: a Poetics of Newplace and Birthplace”. A theme of the thesis was ‘palimpsest’ the rendering of a new work over the top of an older one. Some of the poems therefore take skeletal forms from well-known British and Australian poems yet are new poems created upon the old. The poems also evoke my memories and experiences of my homeland, particularly the Wheatbelt of Western Australia but also landscapes of Italy and China in …
Tides And Groundwater Or Poems Of 'The Dear Southwest', Glen Phillips
Tides And Groundwater Or Poems Of 'The Dear Southwest', Glen Phillips
ECU Books
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Winged Seed Songs: 32 Poems In Musical Forms & Musical Moods, Glen Phillips
Winged Seed Songs: 32 Poems In Musical Forms & Musical Moods, Glen Phillips
ECU Books
Winged Seed Songs is a special selection of my poetry written over the last forty years or so. These poems were inspired in the main by listening to some of the world’s greatest musical works often performed in our remarkable Perth Concert Hall. I have always felt somewhat chastened by the poet’s achievements compared to those of the composer. The immediacy and universality of music’s appeal and its power to instantly induce very physical responses must make the poet envy this art form. I continue to crave the power to induce audience or reader responses as immediate and strong as …