AustLit
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- y Griffith Review Essentially Creative no. 23 Autumn 2009 Z1566124 2009 periodical issue 'This issue of Griffith Review draws on the talents of those attending the [2020 Summit in early 2008], including many of Australia's most high profile artists, to present a bold new agenda for the nation. It will explore the road blocks of the past and the future possibilities, informed by new thinking about the importance of the arts in economics, education, neuro-science and the creation of beautiful and challenging works.' (Griffith Review website) 2009 pg. 160
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Wildlife of Berlin
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
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2018
12947828
2018
selected work
poetry
'Neilsen’s intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious and unerringly wry, these poems offer us forensically clear-eyed perspectives on subjects ranging from environmental degradation and the impending collapse of fragile ecosystems in the anthropocene, to unconventional and irreverent portraits of figures drawn from literature and politics and beyond. Neilsen’s poems are miraculously both deeply ethical and deeply comic; they surprise and delight with the irreverence of their critiques, while always keeping an eye on the tragic consequences of human folly. Above all, they ask us to sit still, to pay attention, to re-examine our basic precepts with equal measures of reason, wit, imagination and empathy. Wildlife of Berlin is a superbly crafted, incisive and urgent collection of new work from one of Australia’s most original poets, and deserving of the wide audience I am sure it will find. These are necessary poems for incendiary times.
- Sarah Holland-Batt' (Publication summary)
Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018
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Wildlife of Berlin
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
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2018
12947828
2018
selected work
poetry
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