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'In one of her most experimental works to date, Melbourne poet Dominique Hecq paints her words through time and space, swooping in and around a meditation on grief, death and rebirth and the age of uncertainty like a bird in flight. With the deftness of a master poet, Dominique loops each thread back on itself in a dance that keeps the reader on their toes. We pirouette with her into the great unknown. A thought-provoking poets-eye view on the strangeness of our times and the leaps of faith required to keep a sure footing while the world ties itself in knots. Guaranteed to give you a fresh perspective on this experiment we call life.' (Publication summary)
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Wound and Wor(l)d : Violence and Optimism in Poetry
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of After Cage 2019 selected work poetryDominique Hecq’s After Cage is a moving, looping meditation on the possibilities of both language and time. Inspired by her experiences of dance and composition, particularly Stockhausen’s Stimmung, language mirrors physical and musical movement in a series of repeated yet constantly varied threads and whorls. The pages are numberless, challenging our conceptions of what a book should be and encouraging more fluid forms of reading.' (Introduction)
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Wound and Wor(l)d : Violence and Optimism in Poetry
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of After Cage 2019 selected work poetryDominique Hecq’s After Cage is a moving, looping meditation on the possibilities of both language and time. Inspired by her experiences of dance and composition, particularly Stockhausen’s Stimmung, language mirrors physical and musical movement in a series of repeated yet constantly varied threads and whorls. The pages are numberless, challenging our conceptions of what a book should be and encouraging more fluid forms of reading.' (Introduction)