Margaret Clark

Frayed Edges

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Produktbeschreibung

"Margaret Clark's poetry moves comfortably between cosy domesticity, family relationships, art, religion and occasionally politics. She ¿nds inspiration in simple things (a walk in the park, coffee with friends, domestic chores), which reminds us to look for the poetry in the everyday. The metaphor is wielded with great aplomb (Scotland and England as a dysfunctional couple, a mountain range as a sleeping serpent) and the love and respect she has for Australia's impressive landscape is evident in poems such as 'October Storm' and 'Namatjira's Way'. These are straightforward, straight-talking nuggets of joy and wisdom and although Clark is not afraid to tackle the bigger issues, the pages twinkle delightfully with her quirky sense of humour." - Alison Flett "Margaret Clark's poetry is enriched by wide life experiences and keen observations. We are transported north with apt imagery of time spent living in Alice Springs, a thousand miles from tides, where the grey green casuarinas fuss and whisper in the breeze. A woman of the outback, Clark reveals the art, the beauty and the dangers of the natural world. She recalls Cyclone Tracy, leaving a city littered with tinsel and wrapping paper. She is not afraid to confront pain and hardship; she sees the irony of feral animals shot by feral man. Poems in Frayed Edges also capture scenes from her homeland in the UK and take us on literary journeys, paying tribute to writers and poets from biblical to contemporary times. Clark is a poet of wisdom and depth, making sense of science, domesticity, history and society with a refreshing sense of grace, empathy and often humour." - Jude Aquilina "Margaret Clark's poetry - intelligent, wry observations of places and people - is candid but elegant, gritty but lush." Patrick Allington

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ginninderra Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 157g
• ISBN-13: 9781760412296
• ISBN-10: 1760412295
• Artikelnr.: 47342882

Autorenporträt

Margaret Clark spent a nomadic childhood in England, Scotland and Ireland before emigrating at age ten to South Australia. After school and college in SA, she married and moved to the Northern Territory supposedly for three years, but staying for thirty. She worked as a teacher in remote Aboriginal communities, raised two children and later retrained in the field of architectural drafting and design. A move to Brisbane prompted another life change, working for the Anglican Church and doing part-time theology studies. Retirement brought her and husband Nigel back to South Australia and proximity to their growing family. The nomadic nature of childhood has not left her and retirement has brought opportunities for travel which has been the inspiration for many of the poems in this collection and also brought reflection on the joys of home. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies by Friendly Street Poets, The Eremos Institute and the Guardian Magazine of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide. Some of her work has also been set to music and performed at the Toowoomba Christian Music Symposium and in churches in Queensland and South Australia. She is a committee member of Friendly Street Poets, a poets' collective for the writing, reading and publishing of poetry in South Australia, and was co-editor for their 2016 anthology Many Eyes, Many Voices. Tourist or Pilgrim? is her second book. Her first poetry collection, Frayed Edges, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2016.