{"id":171,"date":"2014-03-05T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-07-28T04:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T04:54:25","slug":"the-simplified-world-petra-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"The Simplified World: Petra White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thesimplifiedworld2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thesimplifiedworld2-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"thesimplifiedworld2\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thesimplifiedworld2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thesimplifiedworld2.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?0980526981&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780980526981<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a052 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>Like Petra White\u2019s applauded first collection, her second begins and ends with a fable of the uncanny ordinary. Between is a cornucopia of odes: epistolary, philosophical, elegiac. These poems think through and honour the normal mysteries of fate.<\/p>\n<p>Her world is large and contemporary, anchored by a young poet\u2019s own memories. White inhabits her poems lightly, using personal experience with wit and without self-pleading. Some of this work shows the shadow of depression: not so much expressing moods as touching on how depression dwells, finding its register so it can speak.<\/p>\n<p>A number of poems openly engage with notable depressives of literary history, but we don\u2019t need those homages to realise that this poet is a very capacious reader. It is there in her music. Late Lowell and Bishop, along with Harwood, ghost the swift edge in her language. Beyond these, a large tradition of cadences and tropes is absorbed in her fluent free verse lines.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Simplified World<\/i>\u00a0was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with LK Holt\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/john.sophiegaurstudio.com\/?p=311\"><i>Patience, Mutiny<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and David Musgrave\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/john.sophiegaurstudio.com\/?p=308\"><i>Phantom Limb<\/i><\/a>. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Judith Wright Prize in the A.C.T Awards and for the John Bray Prize in the 2011 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/18.-SimplifiedWorldSamples%E2%80%A2july2018.pdf\">Here\u00a0is a selection of poems<\/a> from\u00a0<em>The Simplified World.<\/em><a title=\"The Simplified World\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/simplifiedworldsamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reviews: The Simplified World\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>The Simplified World<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780980526981\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a052 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 Like Petra White\u2019s applauded first collection, her second begins and ends with a fable of the uncanny ordinary. Between is a cornucopia of odes: epistolary, philosophical, elegiac. These poems think through and honour the normal mysteries of fate. Her world is large and contemporary, anchored [&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\/171"}],"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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}