Modewarre
Home Ground
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Spinifex Press
Published:10th Nov '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Modewarre is the indigenous Wathaurong word for musk duck. Through this icon of land and water, Patricia Sykes explores various histories - her own, her forebears, the wider histories of identity and place – in poems that are as concentrated as pearls. It sweeps its subjects along in a flow of striking images and strong feelings, these buoyed by an intelligent sense of poetic structure and modulated by a sometimes ironic eye.
"Fast, precise poetry, Sykes works in the in-between area of named and nameless feelings. [H]er poems ... leap over boundaries, using language as a balletic or gestural medium." Martin Harrison, "Australian Book Review"
ISBN: 9781876756505
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 10mm
Weight: 120g
120 pages