Uncle of Cats
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- Paperback
- Release Date
1 January 2025
Summary
‘Formally consecutive but radically paratactical, these lines are never let loose portentously to dilate. While Wakeling’s poems may aim to nullify Larkin and bog men, archaeologies of cultural inheritance, neither do the poems’ Japanese intertexts serve any smug distortion from empty mind to Western mindfulness, a ‘porcelain pseudo-history’ glazed with ego delusory in vaunted self-denial.
That’s what these poems offer - old lyric technology turning against it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780645761658 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0645761656 |
| Author: | Corey Wakeling, John Wilkinson |
| Publisher: | Cordite Publishing Inc. |
| Imprint: | Cordite Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Corey Wakeling
Corey Wakeling is a writer, scholar, and translator living in Tokyo. He was born in Lancashire, England, and grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Publishing in Perth magazines in his teens, he committed to writing poems when he moved to Melbourne in early 2009. He took up a lectureship in English literature at Kobe College in 2015 and has lived in Japan since then.
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