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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 I Love Poetry
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'In I Love Poetry, Michael Farrell continues his affirmation of poetry as a mode for thinking: about Australia, land, and settlement, about planetary life, and about poetry’s relation to other art forms and to other kinds of writing. His poems show an aptitude for both fiction and (auto)biography. Playful and subtle in tone, they get under the skin of your mind more than in its face. ‘AC/DC as First Emu Prime Minister’ and ‘Into a Bar’ remobilise familiar Australian icons, while ‘Cate Blanchett and the Difficult Poem’ creates a scenario with the actor and Waleed Aly where reading and composition become a single act. ‘Great Poet Snowdome’ is a pervy story of kitsch involving Sydney and the pope, a recurring figure in the book who re-emerges as Pope Pinocchio. There’s a Tame Impala acrostic, a Mad Max riff (‘Put Your Helmet On’), a One Direction revision (‘Drag Me Down’), and forays into poeticising lyrebirds, kangaroos, Robert Menzies and Elizabeth Bishop. There is Sid Vicious and there are lamingtons. There is everything that loves poetry: Weet-Bix, Iron Maiden t-shirts, motorbikes, and you.' (Publication summary)

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: 96p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 November 2017

      ISBN: 9781925336559

Works about this Work

A Deaf Rough Trade : Defending Poetry to ‘Regular People’ Alice Allan , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 91 2019;

'I snap a picture of a poem and send it to a friend. I send it because this friend says he is newly interested in poetry. I send it because this is a poem that intrigues me.' (Introduction)

January in Poetry Autumn Royal , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , January 2019;

— Review of Blakwork Alison Whittaker , 2018 selected work poetry ; Calenture Lindsay Tuggle , 2018 selected work poetry ; I Love Poetry Michael Farrell , 2017 selected work poetry ; Angel Frankenstein George Mouratidis , 2018 selected work poetry
Talking Ordinary: From Simic to Farrell Kevin Brophy , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 November 2017;

'Where Robert Frost might write a few lines soundly cut from the solid old tree of language and delivered in his mellifluous White Mountain voice...' (Introduction)

January in Poetry Autumn Royal , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , January 2019;

— Review of Blakwork Alison Whittaker , 2018 selected work poetry ; Calenture Lindsay Tuggle , 2018 selected work poetry ; I Love Poetry Michael Farrell , 2017 selected work poetry ; Angel Frankenstein George Mouratidis , 2018 selected work poetry
Talking Ordinary: From Simic to Farrell Kevin Brophy , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 November 2017;

'Where Robert Frost might write a few lines soundly cut from the solid old tree of language and delivered in his mellifluous White Mountain voice...' (Introduction)

A Deaf Rough Trade : Defending Poetry to ‘Regular People’ Alice Allan , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 91 2019;

'I snap a picture of a poem and send it to a friend. I send it because this friend says he is newly interested in poetry. I send it because this is a poem that intrigues me.' (Introduction)

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