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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Metronome : New Poems
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'The Metronome is the third in Giramondo's series of annual poetry collections by award-winning poet Jennifer Maiden, addressing political and social issues of the moment, particularly here the tension caused by the election of the US president. Building on the two previous collections Drones and Phantoms and The Fox Petition, The Metronome features intimate conversations about power and policy between contemporary figures and their historical counterparts, the patriots Jeremy Corbyn and Constance Markievicz on a walk in the Scottish Highlands, Governor Bligh and his namesake Wiliam Bligh Turnbull discussing the difference between temper and temperament, Eleanor Roosevelt counselling Hillary Clinton on the use of violence, Jane Austen and Tanya Plibersek talking about sense and sensibility in Sydney's Botanical Gardens. Throughout, we admire Maiden's ability to read the faces and gestures of public figures, the strength of her women, her magical settings, and the rhythmical beat of the poetic metronome, offering reassurance and continuity in a period of austerity and fear. Jennifer Maiden's collections have won the NSW and Victorian Premier's Poetry Prizes, the Age Poetry Book of the Year, and the Victorian Premier's Award for Literature, the richest literary prize in Australia.'

(Publication Summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Katharine

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2017 .
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      Extent: 80p.
      ISBN: 9781925336214

Works about this Work

Alice Allan Reviews The Metronome by Jennifer Maiden Alice Allan , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2017;

— Review of The Metronome : New Poems Jennifer Maiden , 2017 selected work poetry
Nods to History in Topical Verse Peter Craven , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22 April 2017; (p. 21)
'When I edited Black Inc’s Best Australian Poems in the immediate wake of 9/11 I was struck by how much our poets were alive to the impact of world-shattering events and how capable they were of finding a voice for the bewilderment of a terrible time. And no poet is more darkly informed than Jennifer Maiden. She can dramatise how political insights and intimations can twist and turn in a mind, and she can reconfigure worlds of feeling and reference into a poetic speech that is nimble, ornery, but in every way her own.' (Introduction)
'The Metronome' by Jennifer Maiden Jill Jones , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 391 2017;
'Jennifer Maiden’s latest book, The Metronome, is essentially part of a series that could be dated to the appearance of Friendly Fire in 2005, if not further back. While it may not be a series in the sense of a life-poem, Maiden’s ongoing production of this sequence of books carries an impression of vocation or serious commitment, rather than simply poems-as-project.' (Introduction)
Alice Allan Reviews The Metronome by Jennifer Maiden Alice Allan , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2017;

— Review of The Metronome : New Poems Jennifer Maiden , 2017 selected work poetry
'The Metronome' by Jennifer Maiden Jill Jones , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 391 2017;
'Jennifer Maiden’s latest book, The Metronome, is essentially part of a series that could be dated to the appearance of Friendly Fire in 2005, if not further back. While it may not be a series in the sense of a life-poem, Maiden’s ongoing production of this sequence of books carries an impression of vocation or serious commitment, rather than simply poems-as-project.' (Introduction)
Nods to History in Topical Verse Peter Craven , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22 April 2017; (p. 21)
'When I edited Black Inc’s Best Australian Poems in the immediate wake of 9/11 I was struck by how much our poets were alive to the impact of world-shattering events and how capable they were of finding a voice for the bewilderment of a terrible time. And no poet is more darkly informed than Jennifer Maiden. She can dramatise how political insights and intimations can twist and turn in a mind, and she can reconfigure worlds of feeling and reference into a poetic speech that is nimble, ornery, but in every way her own.' (Introduction)
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