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'David Musgrave’s poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual – with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in.
'Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly. Typically they move from the moment of observation to make transformative connections with emotional and imaginative states: the continual freshness of approach from one to another of these poems is a hallmark.
'Other poems meet human situations more immediately. The self, or some other, is substantiated with a generosity of feeling — and this becomes a startling quality within the strands of satire in some poems, notably ‘The Baby Boomers’. Generosity also drives — as much as an elegant form does — ‘Young Montaigne Goes Riding’. Those two extended poems are peaks in a book of exuberant curiosity.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication: To Jill Dimond & Peter Kirkpatrick
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Epigraph: God be gracious to Musgrave, for he is a Merchant - Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno, fragment C
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 1 2011; (p. 229-235)
— Review of Grass Notes 2009 selected work poetry ; Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
David Musgrave : Phantom Limb
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
Kylie Rose Reviews Phantom Limb by David Musgrave
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 8 2010;
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
Ingenuity Breaks the Norm
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 July 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
Metaphor Man
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 66)
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry
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Metaphor Man
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 66)
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
Ingenuity Breaks the Norm
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 July 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
Kylie Rose Reviews Phantom Limb by David Musgrave
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 8 2010;
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
David Musgrave : Phantom Limb
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 1 2011; (p. 229-235)
— Review of Grass Notes 2009 selected work poetry ; Phantom Limb 2008 selected work poetry
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — John Bray Award for Poetry
- 2010 joint winner Grace Leven Poetry Prize
- 2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry
- 2008 winner Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Australian Poet