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'Composed of four sections beginning with the persona of a fabled sea-diver clutching seaweed in her hands and culminating in the wing-beat of a giant kinetic bird, Swallow expands the mythological flight of a migratory bird into a credence of vagrancy, refracted through images drawn from tides, letters, beehives and oranges. These poems are bites of empty sky brimming with the tension of a lightning storm. Swallow has all the sensuousness of Potter's earlier work; her poems are beautifully wrought, resounding.' -- (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For my mother, Diana
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Epigraph:
Where I could not follow
With wing of swallowThomas Hardy, 'The Going'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Dwelling in Multiple Possibilities
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 72 no. 1 2012;
— Review of Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry -
Poetry Review
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse : Aspects of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 50-66)
— Review of Ashes in the Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Pebbles on the Roof 2009 selected work poetry ; Carnival Edge : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Glass Clouds 2010 selected work poetry ; I Painted Unafraid 2010 selected work poetry ; Burning Bright 2010 selected work poetry ; An Absence of Saints 2010 selected work poetry ; Chemistry 2011 selected work poetry ; Lines for Birds : Poems and Paintings 2011 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010 selected work poetry ; Acts of Defiance : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; News of the Insect World : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Graphic : Two Sequences 2010 selected work poetry ; The Drunken Elk 2010 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; The West : Australian Poems 1989-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; La, La, La 2009 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Centre 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Little River 2010 selected work poetry ; Where N Equals a Determinacy of Poetry 2010 selected work poetry ; Heartscapes 2010 selected work poetry ; Green Hair 2010 selected work poetry ; Starlight : 150 Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; The Gossip and the Wine 2011 selected work poetry ; The Geometry of Flight 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry ; Seasons of Doubt and Burning : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Time Will Tell 2010 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems : A Collection of Flowers : 1967-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Swallow
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 15 no. 1 2011;
— Review of Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
Phillip Ellis Reviews Swallow by Claire Potter
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , May no. 9 2011;
— Review of Swallow 2010 selected work poetry
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Pleasures and Risks
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 May 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
Phillip Ellis Reviews Swallow by Claire Potter
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , May no. 9 2011;
— Review of Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
Swallow
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 15 no. 1 2011;
— Review of Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse : Aspects of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 50-66)
— Review of Ashes in the Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Pebbles on the Roof 2009 selected work poetry ; Carnival Edge : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Glass Clouds 2010 selected work poetry ; I Painted Unafraid 2010 selected work poetry ; Burning Bright 2010 selected work poetry ; An Absence of Saints 2010 selected work poetry ; Chemistry 2011 selected work poetry ; Lines for Birds : Poems and Paintings 2011 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010 selected work poetry ; Acts of Defiance : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; News of the Insect World : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Graphic : Two Sequences 2010 selected work poetry ; The Drunken Elk 2010 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; The West : Australian Poems 1989-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; La, La, La 2009 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Centre 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Little River 2010 selected work poetry ; Where N Equals a Determinacy of Poetry 2010 selected work poetry ; Heartscapes 2010 selected work poetry ; Green Hair 2010 selected work poetry ; Starlight : 150 Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; The Gossip and the Wine 2011 selected work poetry ; The Geometry of Flight 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry ; Seasons of Doubt and Burning : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Time Will Tell 2010 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems : A Collection of Flowers : 1967-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Poetry Review
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2011 commended Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Judith Wright Award for a Published Collection by an Australian Poet
- 2011 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
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