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The poems in Knuckled range from the flooded towns of the Snowy Mountains to the burnt-out landscape of Victoria to the holiday beaches of coastal NSW. A sequence set in Sri Lanka compares the poet's and her grandfather's different experiences of Asia - other poems pursue this experience in Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. But it is the suburbs of Western Sydney, where the poet grew up and now works, that is her particular territory, with its mixture of voices and perspectives rendered all the more intensely for the compression and understatement with which they are presented. Knuckled is Wright's first collection of poetry. [From the publisher]
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Dedication: For Claire and Alan
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Petra White on Fiona Wright, Knuckled and Libby Hart, This Floating World
2012
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— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 71 no. 3 2012;
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry ; This Floating World 2011 selected work poetry -
Little Gems of Poems
2012
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— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March-April no. 3 2012;
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
'Raw, I am/Unripe,' But Very, Very Close, if Not There by The Waters
2012
single work
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— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 279-280)
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Australian Poetry 2011-2012
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 30-46)
— Review of Amphora 2011 selected work poetry ; Edge Music 2011 selected work poetry ; Linen Tough as History 2012 selected work poetry ; Error 2011 selected work poetry ; Night Birds 2010 single work poetry ; Vishvarūpa 2011 selected work poetry ; The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Outside 2011 selected work poetry ; The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry ; This Woman 2011 selected work poetry ; Electricity For Beginners 2011 selected work poetry ; Interferon Psalms : 33 Psalms on the 99 Names of God 2011 selected work poetry ; Keeping Carter 2012 selected work poetry ; The Keeper of Fish 2011 selected work poetry ; A Sudden Sentence in the Air : Jazz Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Concrete Tuesday 2011 selected work poetry ; The Bearded Chameleon 2011 selected work poetry ; Southern Barbarians 2009 selected work poetry ; The Yellow Gum's Conversion 2011 selected work poetry ; Four Refrains 2011 selected work poetry ; Surface to Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Adam Ford Reviews Fiona Wright
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 12 February vol. 37 no. 1 2012;
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry
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Making a Good Fist of It
2011
single work
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 October 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Social Sense Culminates in a Last Family Holiday
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15-16 October 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Dream. Drive. Drizzle.
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 338 2012; (p. 62)
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Adam Ford Reviews Fiona Wright
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 12 February vol. 37 no. 1 2012;
— Review of Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Australian Poetry 2011-2012
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 30-46)
— Review of Amphora 2011 selected work poetry ; Edge Music 2011 selected work poetry ; Linen Tough as History 2012 selected work poetry ; Error 2011 selected work poetry ; Night Birds 2010 single work poetry ; Vishvarūpa 2011 selected work poetry ; The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Outside 2011 selected work poetry ; The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry ; This Woman 2011 selected work poetry ; Electricity For Beginners 2011 selected work poetry ; Interferon Psalms : 33 Psalms on the 99 Names of God 2011 selected work poetry ; Keeping Carter 2012 selected work poetry ; The Keeper of Fish 2011 selected work poetry ; A Sudden Sentence in the Air : Jazz Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Concrete Tuesday 2011 selected work poetry ; The Bearded Chameleon 2011 selected work poetry ; Southern Barbarians 2009 selected work poetry ; The Yellow Gum's Conversion 2011 selected work poetry ; Four Refrains 2011 selected work poetry ; Surface to Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry
Awards
- 2012 winner ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
- 2011 commended Anne Elder Award
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