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Stephen Edgar Stephen Edgar i(A20743 works by) (a.k.a. Stephen John Edgar)
Born: Established: 1951 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Reflexions in the Face of Newton's Clock i "Each visit the shed's tilt is more pronounced,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Stopping the Show i "This is the end of time. One second more", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 The Man Who Took Himself Off Like a Hat i "Once more the dark comedian performs,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Dawn Service for a Tyrant i "His wife is huddled underneath the bed,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 The Lady of Single Deed i "There was a lady of single deed", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 In the Gallery of Missing Pictures i "At night it happens that the hour comes,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Daisy, Belle and Arthur i "If barmaids were unknown", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 This is Just to Say (the Full Story) i "I have eaten", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Two Ways to See America (for Kevin Hart) i "He couldn't say that he had not been warned.", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Stone Mirror i "She stares with other faces", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Satie: Scraps and Sketches i "Lost on a bus so many years ago.", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 The Prisoner i "The blind light in the windows marked it out,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Creatures of Memory : A Minor Bestiary i "A shape I couldn't quite dtermine,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 A Thousand Words i "A breath, it's said,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Standing in the Waterfall i "The Mondrian pattern of the picnic rug", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
1 Figures in the Wind i "So mad a gale It filled the", Stephen Edgar , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 August 2021; (p. 18)
1 Second Circle i "Heads down and shoulders hunched, we set off, trampling", Stephen Edgar , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 430 2021; (p. 54)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Strangest Place : New and Selected Poems Stephen Edgar , Fitzroy North : Black Pepper , 2020 20915373 2020 selected work poetry

'The strangest place, this world of fact and figment we astonishingly find ourselves inhabiting, is the territory that Stephen Edgar’s poetry has been probing and framing for over four decades now, looking out on the evanescent representations of light and inwards on the mind and “the gyre of its own consciousness”, feeling “toward the labyrinth just behind Creation’s serene surface”, as Alan Gould described it, and “trying to keep faith poetically with that strangeness of the world”, in the words of Peter Steele.

'The Strangest Place offers a retrospective on Edgar’s career, with selections from each of his previous ten books. Opening the collection is a book-length section of new poems, Background Noise, which continues and extends the range of his meditations, with characteristic technical mastery, interspersed with the title’s leitmotiv, whether the notes of lorikeets in the morning trees, echoing voices in an abandoned railway tunnel, the mind’s running commentary or the cosmic hum beyond the death of the stars.' (Publication summary)
1 Out of This World i "So, the great man predicts,", Stephen Edgar , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 79 no. 2 2020; (p. 162-163)
1 Dawn Solo i "First light beside the Murray in Mildura", Stephen Edgar , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 422 2020; (p. 16)
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