Product Description

This book was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award. It is wondrous book of parables, meditative cantos, mysterious songs, lyrical and exploratory poems mapping interstices between experience, emotion, and realization casts Zen-like nets - those of a boldly honest, brilliant Western heart-mind - and from there opens onto the palpable world that shapes and impels our lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1856300 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

Review
I can stick to straightforward words of praise, such as brilliance of technical address and originality of utterance, when describing her verse. -- Peter Porter The Age She is a time and space traveller on a grand scale ... -- Barry Hill The Australian This 'unfinished' collection by M.T.C. Cronin is better than almost all of the polished, earnest Australian collections I have read in recent years. She is a genius of poetry. Many of her poems intentionally baffle expectations set up in the first lines; others link apparently unrelated images and hint at their conjoined possibilities; still others invite you to search for their meaning in other poems or places outside the text. Even her most fragmentary or cosiest-seeming pieces point skyward to meta-realms. -- Stephen Lawrence Journal of Australian Studies All great books just tell you the story, all great poetry is a result of an artist capturing the truth, even if there is no story, the truth of our aloneness in the vast unknown. "Beautiful, unfinished -- parable, song, canto", poem is a masterpiece of music in words. Buy this book. Read it a whole bunch of times. It is a necessary addition to your brain-software in this techno-mystical age. -- Brentley Frazer Cordite Magazine "beautiful unfinished" is a book of tremendous riches, and a quite exhilarating power. Ms Cronin is one to follow -- no doubt of that. -- Tony Frazer Shearsman

About the Author
MTC Cronin has published fourteen collections of poetry (including several in translation), the latest being The Flower, The Thing, UQP, 2006 and her work has won and been shortlisted for many major literary awards both in Australia and overseas. Cronin has studied arts, law, literature and creative writing and after working for the decade of the nineties in law, began teaching writing in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. She currently lives in Maleny (Queensland, Australia) with her partner and three young daughters and is completing her doctorate – The Catastrophe of Meaning – described as writing on poetry, law, justice and desire. Cronin has three collections of poetry forthcoming (Irrigations (of the Human Heart) ~ fictional essays on the poetics of living, art & love, USA; Our Life is a Box. / Prayers Without a God, Australia/Thailand; and Notebooks of Signs & 3 Other Small Books, UK).