{"id":175,"date":"2014-03-05T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2014-03-25T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T03:37:30","slug":"patience-mutiny-l-k-holt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Patience, Mutiny: L K Holt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/patiencemutiny2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25\" alt=\"patiencemutiny2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/patiencemutiny2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/patiencemutiny2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/patiencemutiny2.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?0980526973&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780980526974<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a050 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>All but four of these poems by LK Holt are fourteen-liners: free-verse sonnets if you like\u2014certainly lyrics, but somehow massive. They have elegance, terror, surprising imaginations, humour and extraordinarily disciplined thought.\u00a0 The darting variety that marked her prize-winning first collection has come to a steadier gaze in her second.<\/p>\n<p>A nut-shell account of the book\u2019s four parts might describe a movement from familial well-being\u2014happy-being\u2014to a concluding psalmic sufferance, through reflections on the survival-feats of boys and men, on the self-presence of young women, and on love.<\/p>\n<p>That description catches her intimate touch but not her outreach. Holt\u2019s writing shows how the present doesn\u2019t escape the weight, or the light, of ancient narratives. History stands inside poems of contemporary dailiness, turning them to half-epic.<\/p>\n<p><i>Patience, Mutiny<\/i>\u00a0was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with Petra White\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"The Simplified World\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=171\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Simplified World<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and David Musgrave\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Phantom Limb\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=173\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Phantom Limb<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Judith Wright Poetry Prize in the A.C.T Awards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Patience, Mutiny: Samples\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20.-PatienceMutinySamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Patience, Mutiny.<\/em><a title=\"Patience, Mutiny\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/patiencemutinysamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Patience, Mutiny: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=296\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Patience, Mutiny<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780980526974\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a050 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 All but four of these poems by LK Holt are fourteen-liners: free-verse sonnets if you like\u2014certainly lyrics, but somehow massive. They have elegance, terror, surprising imaginations, humour and extraordinarily disciplined thought.\u00a0 The darting variety that marked her prize-winning first collection has come to a steadier [&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\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}