{"product_id":"selected-poems-1971-2016-laurie-duggan-9781848615731","title":"Selected Poems 1971-2016","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Duggan's is a poetry that determines to surprise: almost daring a reader to exclaim: you wrote like this about that?\" --Alan Wearne, \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Duggan's poetry has the virtue that it never 'abandons the local'. Like Paul Blackburn--a poet Duggan manifestly admires--he builds his work out of what he finds in, on or about the premises.\" --Tony Baker, \u003cem\u003eJacket\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How ferociously Duggan attends both to the there of the world . . . and the here of writing.\" --John Latta, \u003cem\u003eIsola di Rifiuti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The small poems ... slowly build up to a much larger narrative; a narrative of time and memory, of thinking and looking and being in the world, a kind of history that is happening on the sidelines.\" --Fiona Wright \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems of \u003cem\u003eAllotments\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUnder the Weather \u003c\/em\u003ecan often seem easily-done, casual jottings but there is a complex pattern behind their conception and an extraordinary quality of poise about their execution. Both books remind us what a remarkable poet Duggan has become.\" --Martin Duwell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I think of how Pound defined the image as 'that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'; and, still being thoroughly sane back in 1913, he went on to say: 'the natural object is always the adequate symbol'. Such an imagist doctrine has always been at the heart of Laurie Duggan's sharp-eyed work, ever since the days when he was at the core of a group who got together at Monash, back in the 1960s.\" --Chris Wallace-Crabbe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The immediacy of Duggan's perceptions possess a life which is not held in by the contours of the field but which realises the geography of \"range\". This fine collection is more than \"singular spaces\" and lives as a \"world of transactions\" between poet and reader. Our guide through the spaces is a perceptive wit which looks closely at the world and concludes.\" --Ian Brinton, \u003cem\u003eTears in the Fence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie Duggan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848615736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848615731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Laurie Duggan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48459650990335,"sku":"9781848615731","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_610783f1-9f65-4866-bb02-4bb568f04b38.jpg?v=1777411030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selected-poems-1971-2016-laurie-duggan-9781848615731","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}