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Eirenikon

  • ISBN-13: 9780900977879
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Gavin Bantock
  • Price: AUD $17.99
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  • Local release date: 28/09/1972
  • Format: Hardback (220.00mm X 170.00mm) 32 pages Weight: 228g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Gavin Bantock's challenging new poem is written in the form of an Euclidean theorem. It sets forth a proposition, often in a sharply satirical and polemic vein, for world peace. Mr. Bantock is 'not afraid to think big, to stick out his neck, and to write of man's fragile vanity', as Kevin Crossley-Holland wrote of "Juggernaut". In "Eirenikon", his account of mankind's pollution both of the world and himself, is violent and disturbing; but it is finally a humanistic poem written for love of man - with vigour, humour, irony and a striking originality of style and method.
Gavin Bantock was born in 1939. While at New College, Oxford, he wrote his long poem 'Christ' which shared the Richard Hillary Award for 1964 and the Poetry Society's Award for 1966. Since 1969, when he received an Eric Gregory Award for his poems (including those in 'A New Thing Breathing', 1969) he has lived and taught at Reitaku University in Japan.
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