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'Aqua Spinach rounds out a trilogy of books interested in the affinities between poetry and other media – visual arts, music, and particularly in this collection, cinema. The poems in Aqua Spinach blend observation, memory and anecdote, producing surrealistic imagery as they pivot and twist from image to image. They are infused with the atmosphere of surrealist cinema, mimicking the films’ focus on dreams, fragments and humour, while also speaking to the author's quotidian Melbourne milieu.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Geraldine Burrowes Reviews Aqua Spinach by Luke Beesley
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2019;
— Review of Aqua Spinach 2018 selected work poetry -
Joan Fleming Reviews Fiona Hile and Luke Beesley
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 88 2018;'Two very recent books by two mid-career Melbourne poets offer distinct intellectual gymnasiums in which to lift and push and run and sweat. I may not have been able to master these books, but they knocked the breath out of me.' (Introduction)
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Geraldine Burrowes Reviews Aqua Spinach by Luke Beesley
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2019;
— Review of Aqua Spinach 2018 selected work poetry -
Joan Fleming Reviews Fiona Hile and Luke Beesley
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 88 2018;'Two very recent books by two mid-career Melbourne poets offer distinct intellectual gymnasiums in which to lift and push and run and sweat. I may not have been able to master these books, but they knocked the breath out of me.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
