Prickly Moses

Simon West

Prickly Moses
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
20 October 2023
Pages
72
ISBN
9780691250595

Prickly Moses

Simon West

An uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West's poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new collection, the Australian poet and Italianist delights in the transforming and endlessly varied powers of naming and speaking. West's intensely regional focus stands in dialogue with Europe and antiquity. Landscapes reveal the tangle of their historical dimensions, as the rivers of both the Goulburn Valley in southeastern Australia and the Po Valley in northern Italy merge and flow into the wider currents of the Southern Ocean. Again and again, language and the senses throw themselves into the nameless riot of the world, from eucalypts and clouds to a medieval bell tower and the sounds a pencil makes as it crosses a page.

'Words, in Simon West's poems, are so lovingly proffered in all their materiality that we rejoice in the further revelations of meaning and import. All poetry is local, and West situates us in locales that are rich in resonance - whether Australia or Italy or some region of the mind where we become part of a wider world.'- Paul Kane, author of A Passing Bell: Ghazals for Tina

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