{"id":166,"date":"2014-03-05T12:43:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:07:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:07:57","slug":"pilbara-mark-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Pilbara: Mark O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pilbara2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" alt=\"pilbara2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pilbara2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pilbara2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pilbara2.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?0980526957&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780980526950<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a070 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>Over his long career Mark O\u2019Connor has made his poetic homes in a succession of Australian regions. Indeed from the time of Homer much of the best literature has been regional. It knows its own place so well that it has no need to be consciously universal; rather the world of readers comes to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pilbara<\/em>\u00a0alternates brief informative prose with bursts of magnificent free-verse lyric. O\u2019Connor\u2019s gift is for bringing a large array of knowledge to bear in observations of delicate precision, combining awe with a quiet humour. The vastness of Western Australia\u2019s dry Pilbara is perceived in these poems, yet not allowed to dominate over its nooks and intimacies \u2013 the lives of birds, flowers, trees, and the unexpectedness of water.<\/p>\n<p>The 3.65 billion-year geological history of some of the oldest solidified land surfaces on our planet forms an underpinning. The work effortlessly takes in pre-history, history and ecology, along with current human realities like mining and grazing. \u2018Archaean land, in the grip of modern raptors.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pilbara Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/16.-Pilbarafeb24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Pilbara.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pilbara: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=285\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Pilbara.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780980526950\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a070 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 Over his long career Mark O\u2019Connor has made his poetic homes in a succession of Australian regions. Indeed from the time of Homer much of the best literature has been regional. It knows its own place so well that it has no need to be consciously [&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\/166"}],"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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}