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'Through Jo Langdon's gaze, the ordinary world is transformed into a snow globe of wondrous possibility. The city and its objects move impressionistically, summer bodies dissemble, and daily routines take on an uncanny glow. Domestic realities are glimpsed or suggested, small histories reveal a chiaroscuro of darkness and light.'
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J V Birch Reviews Glass Life by Jo Langdon
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2019;
— Review of Glass Life 2018 selected work poetry -
William Farnsworth Reviews Glass Life by Jo Langdon
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;
— Review of Glass Life 2018 selected work poetry'On opening the first pages of Jo Langdon’s second collection, Glass Life, one might, at first, have the sense of reading through a poet’s travelogue. Among the first few poems there are descriptions of the modernist Hauptbahnhof station in Berlin or the glaze ice sculpture of the nativity scene (Eiskrippe) in Graz, Austria. Here, a theme integral to the collection is implied: fragility and strength in balance with each other; a starting point for Langdon’s lyrical journey of introspective musings and wanderlust.' (Introduction)
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William Farnsworth Reviews Glass Life by Jo Langdon
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;
— Review of Glass Life 2018 selected work poetry'On opening the first pages of Jo Langdon’s second collection, Glass Life, one might, at first, have the sense of reading through a poet’s travelogue. Among the first few poems there are descriptions of the modernist Hauptbahnhof station in Berlin or the glaze ice sculpture of the nativity scene (Eiskrippe) in Graz, Austria. Here, a theme integral to the collection is implied: fragility and strength in balance with each other; a starting point for Langdon’s lyrical journey of introspective musings and wanderlust.' (Introduction)
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J V Birch Reviews Glass Life by Jo Langdon
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2019;
— Review of Glass Life 2018 selected work poetry
