{"product_id":"dear-muses-simon-west-9781925780468","title":"Dear Muses: Essays in Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eDoes it make sense to invoke the Muses today? Few of us believe our poems will be better for praying to stola-clad women sitting on a mountain in Greece. This book asks the reader to consider the Muse as something more - a vehicle for acknowledging cultural legacies that radiate out from the past and into contemporary Australia. In addressing the Muses we talk to that inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these essays Simon West examines our metaphors for reaching back after inspiration. Rather than cultural rubble ripe for plunder, he celebrates our waterways in imagining that heritage, rivers that nourish the red gums across floodplains. In doing so he ranges widely, bridging Classical and European interests with a celebration of Australian poets, while asking, always, where is Parnassus now?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon West is the author of four collections of poetry and an edition of the Italian poet Guido Cavalcanti. He is represented in anthologies including \u003cem\u003eThirty Australian Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (UQP), \u003cem\u003eYoung Poets: An Australian Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e (John Leonard Press), and \u003cem\u003eContemporary Australian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann). His third book \u003cem\u003eThe Ladder \u003c\/em\u003ewas shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and his most recent, \u003cem\u003eCarol and Ahoy\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon West\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1925780465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781925780468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.43d","brand":"Simon West","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440132763903,"sku":"9781925780468","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b75949db-5852-4d1a-9d38-494c9253ea1d.jpg?v=1777180441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dear-muses-simon-west-9781925780468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}