{"id":158,"date":"2014-03-05T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:06:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:06:46","slug":"therapy-like-fish-new-and-selected-poems-marcella-polain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Therapy like Fish: New and Selected Poems: Marcella Polain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/therapylikefish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20\" alt=\"therapylikefish\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/therapylikefish-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/therapylikefish-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/therapylikefish.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?0977578798&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780977578795<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0170 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>A full-length book of new poems by Marcella Polain opens this volume and provides its overall title. Two further sections select generously from her earlier two books, with some revisions.<\/p>\n<p>Her lines in those earlier books dance on the page, always seeking a place to leap, and unexpected trajectories. Energy of rhythm and assurance of connection weave a remarkably wide territory of emotional understanding. The setting is Perth and its wheat-belt inland; the poems engage personally with the matters of childhood, adulthood and family, and with the girl immigrant\u2019s awareness of \u2018the salt of distant throats\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Polain\u2019s new poems focus her essential \u00e9lan and fierce intelligence on the solitary psyche, summoning grief and fear in a place of stillness and vulnerability. This strikingly immediate poetry is probably her most searching and complex yet.<\/p>\n<p><i>Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems<\/i>\u00a0was shortlisted for the 2009 Judith Wright Poetry Prize in the A.C.T Awards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Therapy like Fish poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/12.-Therapy-like-FishFeb2014a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Therapy like Fish:\u00a0New and Selected Poems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Therapy like Fish: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=277\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Therapy like Fish:New and Selected Poems.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780977578795\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0170 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 A full-length book of new poems by Marcella Polain opens this volume and provides its overall title. Two further sections select generously from her earlier two books, with some revisions. Her lines in those earlier books dance on the page, always seeking a place to [&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\/158"}],"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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}