Kangaroo Unbound, 9781923099623
Paperback
Shead’s art inspires poems: Australian mythology found in Lawrence’s shadow.

Kangaroo Unbound

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  • Paperback

    72 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2025

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Summary

Kangaroo Unbound: Poems Inspired by Garry Shead

Kangaroo Unbound is a collection of 50 poems that take their titles and inspiration from legendary Australian artist Garry’s Shead’s iconic ’D.H. Lawrence’ series of paintings, which he produced in the early 90s in response to Lawrence’s 1923 novel Kangaroo. Like the paintings, the poems range from the heavily influenced (those that lean into the source text with strong ekphrastic fidelity) to those that offer more ab…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923099623
ISBN-10:1923099620
Author:Luke Johnson
Publisher:Puncher and Wattmann
Imprint:Puncher and Wattmann
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:72
Release Date:31 March 2025
Weight:180g
Dimensions:210mm x 148mm x 6mm
About The Author

Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson is a writer and academic from Wollongong, NSW. His poems, stories, essays and criticism are widely published in Australia and have won or been listed for numerous national prizes, including the AAWP Chapter One Prize, the Elizabeth Jolley Award, the Josephine Ulrick Award, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award as well as several development fellowships. He is the author of the short story collection Ferocious Animals (Recent Work Press 2021) and a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong.

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