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Kevin Hart Kevin Hart i(A18721 works by)
Born: Established: 1954 Essex,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1966 Departed from Australia: 2002
Heritage: English
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1 Interview New Directions Kevin Hart , David Campbell , single work
1 To The Tune Of ‘Fahet Uns Die Füchse’ Kevin Hart , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 3 2020; (p. 87)
1 To The Tune Of ‘On The Road Somewhere' Kevin Hart , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 3 2020; (p. 86)
1 Mister Wolf i "There’s no point asking you what time it is,", Kevin Hart , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 78 no. 1 2018; (p. 163-164)
1 A Visitor i "some nights my mother drops around again", Kevin Hart , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 78 no. 1 2018; (p. 161-162)
1 Her Face i "her look on hot dark summer nights has gone.", Kevin Hart , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 78 no. 1 2018; (p. 160-161)
1 Two Hauntings Kevin Hart , 2018 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 78 no. 1 2018; (p. 160-161)
1 1 y separately published work icon Barefoot Kevin Hart , Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2018 13970472 2018 selected work poetry

'Barefoot is Kevin Hart's eighth collection of poems; it is rich in elegies, meditations on lost love, and celebrations of new love. The title speaks of mourning, pilgrimage, and the direct sensuous contact of flesh with earth.

'Harold Bloom has long extolled Hart as a "visionary of desire," and in this collection we find that vision deepened and that desire extended. Never before has Hart stretched his range of inspiration quite so far; while continuing to draw from Christianity, he also responds to the rich heritage of American Blues, and reveals a wit as sharp as a razor's edge.

'The poetry is at once religious poetry and love poetry; indeed, the "religious poetry" is itself love poetry. Always, Hart speaks to us in words that seem inevitable in their simplicity. As he himself has written, "The best conductor of mystery is clarity. The true bearer of complexity is simplicity." Barefoot will delight poetry lovers everywhere.' (Publication summary)

1 Her i "I want that night again: hours trickling by", Kevin Hart , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;
1 New Uz i "You don’t find many flights to Uz these days;", Kevin Hart , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 157) Southerly , vol. 77 no. 3 2017; (p. 30-31)
1 Rain i "We know the rain : how April sages with clouds", Kevin Hart , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 156) Southerly , vol. 77 no. 3 2017; (p. 28-29)
1 Gillyflower i "I wanted love to touch you that warm day...", Kevin Hart , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December no. 151 2017; (p. 47)
1 How the Sacred Appears : Poetry and the Dark One Kevin Hart , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and Theology , June vol. 31 no. 2 2017; (p. 130–148)

'Poetry does not simply ask ‘What?’ or ‘Why?’ It is deeply concerned with the question, ‘How?’, even if the question is not presented as a theme. God does not usually appear under the questions ‘What?’ and ‘Why?’ in poetry, and when he does it is usually in terms of the ‘supernatural attitude’. Yet God can appear in poems by way of a relation. It is not always the case that divine manifestation is overwhelming; sometimes it is as something that can easily be overlooked or bypassed.'  (Publication abstract)

1 Barefoot i "Still of our world, dear father, in your grave", Kevin Hart , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: World Literature Today , vol. 91 no. 6 2017; (p. 61)
1 Eliot’s Rose-Garden : Some Phenomenology and Theology in “Burnt Norton” Kevin Hart , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016;
'I wish to read the opening passage of T. S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton,” the first of Four Quartets (1944), because I find it the most difficult part of the poem as well as one of the richest sections of it. Its difficulty and its richness are co- ordinate in ways that need to be specified, and while Four Quartets as a whole continually interprets the opening passage while further enriching it, it is also true that this passage establishes the lines along which we interpret the whole of the Quartets, including what we understand to be the character of its wholeness. “Burnt Norton” was written in the autumn of 1935 and published before the idea of the further three poems came to Eliot.2 That Four Quartets is a whole can scarcely be denied – its unity is thematically and formally insisted upon in “East Coker”, “The Dry Salvages” and especially “Little Gidding”. And yet “Burnt Norton” also exists as a poem in its own right. More exactly, one might say that it once existed simply by itself but now does not. It was progressively taken up into a greater unity, and now the later three sections permeate the first, ramifying and deepening some if not all of its lines. This first poem, section or movement of Four Quartets has two epigraphs taken from Heraclitus, which frame the whole. Let us begin with these.' (Introduction)
1 Lao-Tzu and the Louse i "'To be an archer,' Lao-Tse said on day,", Kevin Hart , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December - January no. 145 2016-2017; (p. 49)
1 The Trojan War Will Not Take Place i "Turns out those sparkling goddesses we loved", Kevin Hart , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December - January no. 145 2016-2017; (p. 49)
1 Spring Wheat i "The very shadows seemed to smell of straw", Kevin Hart , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December/January no. 139 2015-2016; (p. 49)
1 The Rat Summons i "Messieurs les rats of Autun parish, heed!", Kevin Hart , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December/January no. 139 2015-2016; (p. 49)
1 The Future i "My friends, we're fucked: dark matter's everywhere", Kevin Hart , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , June-July no. 136 2015; (p. 53)
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