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y separately published work icon Trigger Warning selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Trigger Warning
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'Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets – from Sylvia Plath to Anne Carson – whose dramatised confessions trigger Takolander’s own. The second part remains focused on the domestic, while redeeming that scene of trauma through a reinventing wit. The final section of this extraordinary book turns its attention outside, playing with poetry itself in order to confront the Anthropocene and the final frontier of death. This is poetry that balances ruthlessness and lyrical beauty; poetry alive to its time and audience; poetry not to be missed.'

Source : publisher's blurb

Notes

  • Dedication: For David and Sam.
  • Epigraph:

    After all, works of art are always the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.

    – Rainer Maria Rilke

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 112p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 2nd July 2021
      ISBN: 9780702263088 (pbk), 9780702264672 (ebk)

Works about this Work

Warnings, Consequences and Laments John Kinsella , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 August 2021; (p. 18)

— Review of Sydney Spleen Toby Fitch , 2021 selected work poetry ; Whisper Songs Tony Birch , 2021 selected work poetry ; Trigger Warning Maria Takolander , 2021 selected work poetry
Unpredictive Chemistry : The Bloodbeat of Evocative Language Rose Lucas , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 434 2021; (p. 56-57)

— Review of Trigger Warning Maria Takolander , 2021 selected work poetry ; Rare Bird James Lucas , 2021 selected work poetry ; The Hard Word Peter Kirkpatrick , 2021 selected work poetry
Unpredictive Chemistry : The Bloodbeat of Evocative Language Rose Lucas , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 434 2021; (p. 56-57)

— Review of Trigger Warning Maria Takolander , 2021 selected work poetry ; Rare Bird James Lucas , 2021 selected work poetry ; The Hard Word Peter Kirkpatrick , 2021 selected work poetry
Warnings, Consequences and Laments John Kinsella , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 August 2021; (p. 18)

— Review of Sydney Spleen Toby Fitch , 2021 selected work poetry ; Whisper Songs Tony Birch , 2021 selected work poetry ; Trigger Warning Maria Takolander , 2021 selected work poetry
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