{"id":151,"date":"2014-03-05T12:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:05:05","slug":"poems-1980-2008-jan-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Poems &#8211; 1980-2008: Jan Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/poemsjanowen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21\" alt=\"poemsjanowen\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/poemsjanowen-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/poemsjanowen-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/poemsjanowen.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?097757878X&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780977578788<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0344 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 29.95<\/p>\n<p>This retrospective by Jan Owen includes a majority of the poems from her first five volumes, with some revisions. Gathered with them is a book-length collection of new poetry,\u00a0<em>Laughing in Greek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A large and intricate world is on display, present in capsule on page 1 in &#8216;First Love&#8217;. This poem sets going a motif of the airy light and shadow cast by memory of adult and childhood relationships. It also raises the lure of knowledge: Owen&#8217;s verse is infused with the sciences, and with art, philosophy and history. Her interest is the world itself, and the words for it. When she writes a poem that dwells on a place or a painting &#8211; or a memory &#8211; it is not as a tourist impressionist but as a thinker and precise sensualist.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Owen has a command of wit and tone across a wide range of verse techniques, both formal and free. She moves easily between plain, oblique and surreal. Some of the new poems seem glowing labyrinths of thinking and language &#8211; led through by a wonderful clarity of voice and rhythm.<\/p>\n<p><i>Poems 1980-2008<\/i>\u00a0was shortlisted and \u2018highly commended\u2019 for the 2009 Judith Wright Prize in the A.C.T Awards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Poems 1980-2008 Samples\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9.-PoemsJanOwenSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from this volume.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reviews: Poems,1980-2008\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=273\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>: Poems,1980-2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780977578788\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0344 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 29.95 This retrospective by Jan Owen includes a majority of the poems from her first five volumes, with some revisions. Gathered with them is a book-length collection of new poetry,\u00a0Laughing in Greek. A large and intricate world is on display, present in capsule on page 1 in [&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\/151"}],"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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}