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"Arjun von Caemmerer's book (created and selected over 25 years) creates a world that allows the reader to plunge into the very depths of poetry - variously visual, amorous, humorous, sensual, cerebral, and musical. It is a textbook of thinking, and includes the first bull-blown print release of Lingua Franka, his truly unruly homage to the late, great Frank Zappa."–Back cover.
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Vice Versa by Arjun von Caemmerer
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 22 2017; (p. 145-148)
— Review of Vice Versa : New and Selected Poems 2016 selected work poetry -
Review Short: Arjun von Caemmerer’s Vice Versa: New and Selected Poems
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August vol. 82 no. 2017;'Tasmanian poet Arjun von Caemmerer’s Vice Versa: New and Selected Poems(Collective Effort, 2016) is a chronological selection from an oeuvre that spans publications from Two’s Kisses (1992) to Recombinants (2015). At its best, it’s idiosyncratic and intriguing, characterised by its playfulness, wit, concrete effects, typography, and variety of forms.' (Introduction)
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Arjun Von Caemmerer, Vice Versa
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 76 no. 3 2017; 'All poetry has unknown quality. The word is essentially an experiment. Each textual construct has multiple realities only restrained by imaginative possibility. In Vice Versa, a significant work of poetic exploration, Arjun Von Caemmerer asks us to journey beyond language convention and form. Any illusion of singular meaning becomes a playful quality on the page, instigating a textual re-think, and ultimately, unconditional reading. His multi-dimensional work negotiates letter, word and syntax in a ludic interrogation of concrete reality and abstract ideas. Along with an active spatial quality, the work deconstructs meaning, and in this dialogue, openly disrupts the orthodox of traditional poetry. Von Caemmerer offers an epigraph of Emily Dickinson; “I dwell in Possibility.../More Numerous of Windows”, almost as if in open invitation.' (Introduction)
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Vice Versa by Arjun von Caemmerer
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 22 2017; (p. 145-148)
— Review of Vice Versa : New and Selected Poems 2016 selected work poetry -
Arjun Von Caemmerer, Vice Versa
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 76 no. 3 2017; 'All poetry has unknown quality. The word is essentially an experiment. Each textual construct has multiple realities only restrained by imaginative possibility. In Vice Versa, a significant work of poetic exploration, Arjun Von Caemmerer asks us to journey beyond language convention and form. Any illusion of singular meaning becomes a playful quality on the page, instigating a textual re-think, and ultimately, unconditional reading. His multi-dimensional work negotiates letter, word and syntax in a ludic interrogation of concrete reality and abstract ideas. Along with an active spatial quality, the work deconstructs meaning, and in this dialogue, openly disrupts the orthodox of traditional poetry. Von Caemmerer offers an epigraph of Emily Dickinson; “I dwell in Possibility.../More Numerous of Windows”, almost as if in open invitation.' (Introduction) -
Review Short: Arjun von Caemmerer’s Vice Versa: New and Selected Poems
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August vol. 82 no. 2017;'Tasmanian poet Arjun von Caemmerer’s Vice Versa: New and Selected Poems(Collective Effort, 2016) is a chronological selection from an oeuvre that spans publications from Two’s Kisses (1992) to Recombinants (2015). At its best, it’s idiosyncratic and intriguing, characterised by its playfulness, wit, concrete effects, typography, and variety of forms.' (Introduction)
