Poetry, 9781923106284
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Loss, displacement, and beauty resonate in poems of quiet strength.
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    310 pages

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    31 March 2025

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Summary

Antigone Kefala: A Legacy in Verse

Poetry brings together all the published poems of the late Antigone Kefala, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Australian literature. Her mixed background – in Romania, Greece, New Zealand and Australia – gave her lyric poetry a unique richness and grace. Her writing was informed by literary traditions that allowed her to achieve powerful effects by apparently simple means. Her poems are carefully worked, minimal yet resona…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923106284
ISBN-10:1923106287
Author:Antigone Kefala, Ivor Indyk
Publisher:Giramondo Publishing Co
Imprint:Giramondo Publishing Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:310
Release Date:31 March 2025
Weight:340g
Dimensions:29mm x 211mm x 150mm
About The Author

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala was also a distinguished writer of prose. She published six novellas, gathered in The First Journey, The Island and Summer Visit, a childhood fable Alexia: A Tale of Two Cultures, and two collections of journals, a form in which she excelled, Sydney Journals (2008), and her last book, Late Journals (2022). In November 2022 she received the Patrick White Literary Award, in recognition of her contribution to Australian literature. She died in December 2022, at the age of 91.

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