{"id":141,"date":"2014-03-05T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:01:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:01:40","slug":"vertigo-a-cantata-jordie-albiston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Vertigo, a cantata: Jordie Albiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vertigoacantata2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9\" alt=\"vertigoacantata2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vertigoacantata2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vertigoacantata2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vertigoacantata2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN:\u00a0<a title=\"libx-autolink\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au\/search\/i?0977578755&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780977578757<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a062 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 23.95<\/p>\n<p>Jordie Albiston\u2019s poetry is known for its rhythmic power, buoying a sharp and often dark intelligence. Vertigo invokes her background in music, using elastically spaced bar-lines to punctuate its energetic cadences. And, modelled like a cantata, it lays out something of music\u2019s paradox \u2013 emotional intensity flashing from formal composure.<\/p>\n<p>Its poems tell the progress of grief for a lost love. This comes as intricately personal, yet the discernment hits as universal.<\/p>\n<p>Open-voiced arias are interleaved with recitatives that play into unexpected corners of emotion and imagining, with irony and \u00e9lan. The individual story then disappears into a series of orphic choruses, spoken by a barely determinate \u2018we\u2019 \u2013 descants upon displacement as human experience, and the mystery of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Each chorus is a vertiginous tale, made of shards of myth, allegory and idea. Among these, a key motif is powerfully engaged: the sea coast \u2013 as respite, meeting place and solvent.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vertigo, a cantata Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5.-VertigoSamplePoems.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Vertigo, a cantata.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vertigo, a cantata Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=265\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a><em>: Vertigo, a cantata<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780977578757\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a062 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 23.95 Jordie Albiston\u2019s poetry is known for its rhythmic power, buoying a sharp and often dark intelligence. Vertigo invokes her background in music, using elastically spaced bar-lines to punctuate its energetic cadences. And, modelled like a cantata, it lays out something of music\u2019s paradox \u2013 emotional intensity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}