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New Poems 2006-2012
  • ISBN-13: 9780856464539
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Tony Connor
  • Price: AUD $27.99
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  • Local release date: 11/02/2014
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 220g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Tony Connors tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from this event, memory or fantasy. In the surrealistic sequence that ends the book, a strange army invades a country collapsing into societal and semantic dissolution. Connors abiding preoccupations continue into his eighties: his own life and the lives around him, passing time and its traps, poetry and its transfiguration of the commonplace. Yet all is not solemn as Connor extends his range into comic verse and dramatic dialogue. His new poems mix fantasy and reality in unexpected ways, always with the unobtrusive hand of a skilled craftsman.
Since 1971 Tony Connor has lived partly in Middletown, Connecticut where he was a professor of English at Wesleyan University. He spends the summers in London. He left school at fourteen and worked in Manchester as a textile designer for many years.
'His work is both original and entertaining... Connor does not simply report events. He vividly recreates them, shaping each scene with the skill and care of a novelist... his work remains clear-headed, intelligent and immensely readable.' Dana Gioia in 'The Hudson Review'
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