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Rico Craig Rico Craig i(7340234 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Fennel i "We stand, elbow-touching, thin-slicing fennel,", Rico Craig , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 26)
1 y separately published work icon Our Tongues Are Songs Rico Craig , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2021 20909235 2021 selected work poetry

'In Our Tongues Are Songs, Rico Craig pursues the intimate, the voices people use as they speak to their private fears. Craig brings his unique ear for lyricism, his eye for human need, to bear on the promises people make to themselves as they attempt to find solace, companionship and meaning. His haunting use of image fills the day-to-day world with the uncanny — bats are comforted by children, old women weep tattoos, the earth burns, television stars comfort teenagers as they struggle with anorexia, encroaching sands spill the dead into an unnamed city. This book spans voices, generations and countries; it sides with the young and old as they try to carve their humanity from the swirls of despair.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Lake Eucumbene i "Eucumbene has fallen below the stump", Rico Craig , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 241 2020; (p. 63)
1 The ASX Pours from Your Chest i "We squabble about the money skimmed", Rico Craig , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , September 2020;
1 Chiroptera : Seven Ages of Juliane Koepcke i "& Juliane is reborn through clouds, with a polished coin", Rico Craig , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Montreal International Poetry Prize - 2020 Shortlist 2020;
1 Cicada Wings Rico Craig , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss: Volume Seven 2019;
1 A Cheekbone for You to Climb Over i "There were nights you ate grass,", Rico Craig , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , December no. 3 2018;
1 Malik’s Mongoose i "Malik runs Three Card Monte", Rico Craig , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Snorkel , August no. 24 2017;
1 1 y separately published work icon Bone Ink Rico Craig , Ulladulla : Guillotine Press , 2017 13390527 2017 selected work poetry ''These vivid poems meld wild energy with meticulous crafting. They trace the tactile, the remembered and the sensuous, tracking young lives as they unfold under a 'deadpan sky'. With their exquisite music, fresh and startling images, they are variously evocative, mournful and vibrant. They witness the gritty, the violent and the intense with unflinching focus, probing atonement and resolution as their histories rise and subside. This is an exceptionally assured and original debut' - Felicity Plunkett 

''Urban, decadent, dystopian; in Rico Craig's Western Suburbs there are many countries, caliphates, Terracotta warriors and Arctic shelves. With 'the taste of a derelict future', his working class songs and spells have a political consciousness that is unafraid to be mythopoetic. Bone Ink is a fine debut from a poet to watch, whose work has already crossed national borders' - Michelle Cahill' (Publication summary)
1 Emperor of 32 Bella Vista Drive i "Terracotta Warriors guard their Emperor. Fifteen", Rico Craig , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 Hamburg i "If anyone asks I will say, you are oceans away,", Rico Craig , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 144 2016; (p. 110)
1 Blackberry Caliphate i "For months men with coloured stakes have pegged the suburb,", Rico Craig , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;
1 August 28, 1988 i "These planes have shot holes", Rico Craig , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 239)
1 Requiese i "vapour streaks through", Rico Craig , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Summer no. 16 2016; (p. 20)
1 Train to Quakers Rico Craig , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Spring no. 11 2015; (p. 55)
1 Monsoonal Light of Our Childhood i "Life, cannot quell", Rico Craig , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2014;
1 Angelo i "We were kids who hung shoes from power lines,", Rico Craig , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2014; Meanjin , Summer vol. 73 no. 4 2014; (p. 196-187)
1 With Chris Ofili in the Upper Room i "From darkened walls, Ofili's monkeys conspire, their eyes", Rico Craig , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dazzled : The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2014; (p. 40-41)
1 Prawn Heads, Oil Rigs and Infidelity - Kuala Lumpur 1977 i "Fourteen on seven off, incessant", Rico Craig , Judith Beveridge , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
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