{"product_id":"feeding-the-ghost-andy-kissane-9781921450358","title":"Feeding the Ghost: Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is aimed at providing criticism on contemporary Australian poetry in a form that is accessible to general readers. It is intended to be the first in a series which will grapple with the bewildering diversity of the contemporary poetry scene. Australian poetry deserves a criticism that accompanies the astonishing momentum and luminosity that has developed, which both elucidates the scale of poetic achievement and is also not afraid to evaluate that achievement through a rigorous and disinterested critical lens. Australian poets have been feeding the ghost with extraordinary energy and acumen over the last quarter of a century; it is now time for Australian poetry criticism to catch up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndy Kissane has published a novel, a book of short stories, \u003cem\u003eThe Swarm\u003c\/em\u003e, (2012) and four books of poetry. \u003cem\u003eRadiance\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) was shortlisted for the Victorian and Western Australian Premier's Prizes for Poetry and the Adelaide Festival Awards. His essay on the Indigenous poet, Dennis McDermott was the winner of the inaugural BTG - \u003cem\u003eBlue Dog\u003c\/em\u003e Poetry Reviewing Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Musgrave teaches English and Writing at the University of Newcastle. He was a co-editor (with Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge and Judy Johnson) of \u003cem\u003eContemporary Australian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent being \u003cem\u003eAnatomy of Voice\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) which was awarded the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Rickett is an Assistant Dean (Research), Senior Lecturer in Communication and creative arts practitioner at Avondale College of Higher Education. Her research and teaching interests focus on: trauma and bereavement studies; writing as therapeutic intervention; memoir and autobiographical writing; medical humanities; journalism ethics and praxis; literary and poetry studies; chaplaincy, and the psychosocial and spiritual care of patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Kissane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1921450355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781921450358\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 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d","brand":"Andy Kissane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437141405951,"sku":"9781921450358","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26ef4796-ccb9-49fd-8d01-4a8d609919c1.jpg?v=1777160147","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feeding-the-ghost-andy-kissane-9781921450358","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}