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y separately published work icon Hotel Hyperion selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Hotel Hyperion
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Notes

  • Epigraph: By looking into a box through a little hole one might see great plains and an immense expanse of sea spread out till the eye lost itself in the distance. Learned and unlearned agree that these images were not like natural things but like nature itself. These demonstrations, as he called them, took place by night and day. In the former, you saw Orion, Arcturus, the Pleiades, and other shining stars, and the moon rising above high mountains; by day you saw the blaze of dawn as Homer describes it. Certain Greeks, famous men and skilled seafarers, were astonished when he showed them, in his little world, a ship far out to sea. 'Now it labours in the tempest,' he said, 'But tomorrow you will find it in the harbour.' ANON, MID-FIFTEENTH CENTURY, Vita anonima

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Giramondo Publishing , 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dreams and Artefacts, Lisa Gorton , sequence poetry (p. 1-6)
Dreams and Artefacts: Ii"Patiently, ticket by ticket, a soft-stepped crowd", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 3)
Dreams and Artefacts: IIi"Where the sea is", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 4)
Dreams and Artefacts: IIIi"In the next room, they have custom built a staircase.", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 5)
Dreams and Artefacts: IVi"It is raining as I leave -", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 6)
The Storm Glass, Lisa Gorton , sequence poetry (p. 7-15)
A Description of the Storm Glass and Brief Guide to Its Use in Forecasting the Weatheri"A sealed dome of glass where crystals,", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 9-15)
Note: With first line: An invention of alchemists, the first Storm Glasses were sold
Hotel Hyperion, Lisa Gorton , sequence poetry (p. 17-24)
Note: Epigraph: Tis far off,/And rather like a dream than an assurance
Hotel Hyperion 1 : Press Releasei"They chose my child, I visit him", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 19)
Hotel Hyperion II : The History of Space Traveli"In truth, the history of space travel", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 20)
Hotel Hyperion III : Screen, Memory (from a work-in-progress)i"When I try to remember those years,", Lisa Gorton , extract poetry (p. 21)
Hotel Hyperion 1V : Settlement, Titani"The glassed-in world the scale of memory, self-possessing its own loss", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 22)
Hotel Hyperion V : Discoveryi"Routine search, Kuiper Peninsula", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Room and Bell, Lisa Gorton , sequence poetry (p. 29-36)
Room and Bell : Ii"I rang the bell and they came. The bell was made of", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 31)
Note: Author note: At which point unexpectedly, sorting through a box of toys, I found that brass bell which stood beside my bed through all that childhood illness, and which, though I had long since forgotten it, kept still the power of summoning people to my room ...
Room and Bell : IIi"Whatever time they came to the door, they had the", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 32)
Room and Bell : IIIi"A bland, small room - nothing about it accounts for the", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 33)
Room and Bell : IVi"In truth, the dreamt-up room has less in common", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 34)
Room and Bell : Vi"In this architecture, which is built in us, there is no part", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 35)
Room and Bell : VIi"That room has gone, the wall knocked out to extend", Lisa Gorton , single work poetry (p. 36)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Note: Dedication: for Kelso, Toby and Penelope
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry John Kinsella (editor), Monroe : LA Desperation Press Turnrow Books , 2014 8049508 2014 anthology poetry

    'This anthology...is a negotiation of many spaces. That of poets and their work, the idea of "Australia", the idea of being "represented" in a different demographic (America), personal or textual issues with anthologiser, who else is being included (though none outside myself and the publishers have knowledge of this until publication). Vitally, whoat matters is the conversations that arise from the anthology going public, and how the poets and readers deal with this community that has been organically and artificially induced.' John Kinsella (Source: backcover)

    Monroe : LA Desperation Press Turnrow Books , 2014
    pg. 223-225

Works about this Work

‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry John Hawke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)

— Review of Threefer Ken Bolton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert Peter Boyle , 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems John Kinsella , 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing Kathryn Lomer , 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark Rose Lucas , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters Kate Middleton , 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems Geoff Page , 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed Tracy Ryan , 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen Corey Wakeling , 2013 selected work poetry
Poetry Book Review: Hotel Hyperion by Lisa Gorton Adam Meyers , 2014 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry
The Pleasure of Well-Made Rooms : Poetry in Review Martin Langford , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 42-51)

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Chains of Snow Jakob Ziguras , 2013 selected work poetry ; Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets 2012 anthology poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry

'The veins of good work keep getting richer, and the number of poets capable of writing at a level that demands attention continues to grow. From Lisa Gorton's meditations on our emotionally inflected habitations, to Sarah Day's desire to find the words for the presences she encounters; from a selection of more than fifty years' poetry from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, to new work sparked by confrontations between Asian and eastern European traditions on the one hand, and the experience of Australia on the other: each year, Australian poetry is looking more and more like a world. Whatever forces encourage us to operate transnationally - and some of them are in evidence in these collections - one end of the continuum of practice will be grounded in the regional and national for many years to come. Whether such traditions eventually evaporate before technologies we can still barely imagine - to say nothing of the proliferation of texts, and the difficulty of tracking them - we are nevertheless powering ahead, making them deeper, richer and more various.' (Publication abstract)

[Untitled] Andrew McLeod , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , Spring no. 10 2013; (p. 138-143)

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry
2013 in Poetry Ali Alizadeh , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Overland (Online) , December 2013;

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance Christopher Barnett , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unlocked : Nowra 2013 anthology poetry ; Free Logic Rachel Briggs , 2013 selected work poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry ; Women's Work : A Collection of Contemporary Women's Poetry 2013 anthology poetry ; The World Last Night M. T. C. Cronin , 2012 selected work poetry ; The Mundiad Justin Clemens , 2004 single work novel ; Audio Overland no. 2 15 February 2013 periodical issue
Art, Memory & Dreams Claire Nashar , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June no. 8 2013;

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry
Poets Find Their Locus in Mirage Peter Kenneally , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 August 2013; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Home by Dark Pamela Brown , 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen Corey Wakeling , 2013 selected work poetry
Lisa Gorton : Hotel Hyperion Martin Duwell , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 8 no. 2013;

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry
Bonny Cassidy Reviews Hotel Hyperion by Lisa Gorton Bonny Cassidy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 14 2013;

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry
2013 in Poetry Ali Alizadeh , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Overland (Online) , December 2013;

— Review of Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance Christopher Barnett , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unlocked : Nowra 2013 anthology poetry ; Free Logic Rachel Briggs , 2013 selected work poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry ; Women's Work : A Collection of Contemporary Women's Poetry 2013 anthology poetry ; The World Last Night M. T. C. Cronin , 2012 selected work poetry ; The Mundiad Justin Clemens , 2004 single work novel ; Audio Overland no. 2 15 February 2013 periodical issue
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