Synopses & Reviews
The poems in this striking new collection take a number of forms, drifting between nature and philosophy, evoking a meditative quality that is both contemplative and full of grace. Spare and honed, David Brooks’s poems range in scale, from investigations into microscopic detail observing the smallest creatures and textures underfoot as well as the telescopic, revealing the smallness of human endeavor from a thoughtful distance. This volume is at once powerful, resonant, and unreserved.
Synopsis
A striking new poetry collection from the author of The Conversation Open House reveals David Brooks' award-winning talent as a writer and imaginative scholar. Opening the house of his life and extending naturally the striking love poetry of his last volume, The Balcony, Brooks' arrestingly confessional poems range in scale from observations of the smallest creatures underfoot - stepped over, left in peace - to acknowledgements both of the smallness of human endeavour and the catastrophic effects of our custodianship. Vital in all senses, these are poems through which to view the world afresh. This much anticipated new volume is at once powerful, resonant and unreserved.
About the Author
David Brooks is the award-winning author of four previous collections of poetry, three of short fiction, four highly acclaimed novels, and a major work of Australian literary history: The Sons of Clovis. Until 2013 he taught Australian literature at the University of Sydney, where he was also the foundation director of the graduate writing program. He is currently coeditor of literary journal Southerly.