{"id":173,"date":"2014-03-05T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2014-03-25T03:37:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T03:37:34","slug":"phantom-limb-david-musgrave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Limb: David Musgrave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/phantomlimb2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" alt=\"phantomlimb2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/phantomlimb2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/phantomlimb2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/phantomlimb2.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?098052699X&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780980526998<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a070 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>David Musgrave\u2019s poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual \u2013 with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly. Typically they move from the moment of observation to make transformative connections with emotional and imaginative states: the continual freshness of approach from one to another of these poems is a hallmark.<\/p>\n<p>Other poems meet human situations more immediately. The self, or some other, is substantiated with a generosity of feeling \u2014 and this becomes a startling quality within the strands of satire in some poems, notably \u2018The Baby Boomers\u2019. Generosity also drives \u2014 as much as an elegant form does \u2014 &#8216;Young Montaigne Goes Riding&#8217;. Those two extended poems are peaks in a book of exuberant curiosity.<\/p>\n<p><i>Phantom Limb<\/i>\u00a0was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with LK Holt\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=175\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Patience, Mutiny<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and Petra White\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=171\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Simplified World<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Western Australian Premier\u2019s Poetry Book Award and for the John Bray Prize in the 2011 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Phantom Limb Sample Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/19.-PhantomLimbSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from<em>\u00a0Phantom Limb.<\/em><a title=\"Phantom Limb\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/phantomlimbsamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Patience, Mutiny: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=294\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Phantom Limb.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780980526998\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a070 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 David Musgrave\u2019s poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual \u2013 with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, [&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\/173"}],"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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}