{"id":162,"date":"2014-03-05T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:08:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:08:36","slug":"the-sonnet-according-to-m-jordie-albiston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"the sonnet according to &#8216;m&#8217;: Jordie Albiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sonnetaccordingtom2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19\" alt=\"sonnetaccordingtom2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sonnetaccordingtom2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sonnetaccordingtom2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sonnetaccordingtom2.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?0980526930&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780980526936<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a064 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>The letter \u2018m\u2019 is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different women as perspectives to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Recurrence is intrinsic to sonnets. They are patterned internally, and are often paroxysmal: a perfect form and formation for poems which worry the distinction between the fatal and the banal.<\/p>\n<p>The sequence tells what happens when you admit the existential into everyday life, in small or large doses. The results can be desolate, or sublime. And comedic as well: Albiston knows how to play between darkness and send-up, when it comes to an arduous and animating tension between body and mind.<\/p>\n<p><i>The sonnet according to \u2018m\u2019\u00a0<\/i>was awarded the<i>\u00a0<\/i>2010 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier\u2019s Literary Awards. \u00a0It was also shortlisted for the 2010 Judith Wright Poetry Prize in the A.C.T Awards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"the sonnet according to 'm' Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/14.-SonnetAccordingtomSample.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>the sonnet according to &#8216;m&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"the sonnet according to 'm' Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=281\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>the sonnet according to &#8216;m&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780980526936\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a064 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 The letter \u2018m\u2019 is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different [&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\/162"}],"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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}