{"id":186,"date":"2014-03-05T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2018-02-15T23:31:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:31:37","slug":"cumulus-collected-poems-robert-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Cumulus: Collected Poems: Robert Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cumulus2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cumulus2-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"cumulus2\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cumulus2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cumulus2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 978-0-9808523-5-6 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0345pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 32.95<\/p>\n<p>This book is a landmark in Australian poetry. For\u00a0<em>Cumulus<\/em>, Robert Gray has chosen all he wishes to retain from his eight volumes of poetry, some of it considerably and significantly revised. He has included here a new book, \u2018Nameless Earth\u2019, not previously published in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Gray has been a daring and original experimenter in the free verse line, and also at times with traditional forms. Equally, his work is notable for its frequent, uncanny rightness in the creation of images. His thinking shows a remarkable fluency in both Eastern and Western philosophies (Gray has referred to himself as a Buddhist heretic). These are all modernist pathways, and this poetry negotiates them with a lucid, classical temper.<\/p>\n<p>Most striking is an ever-alert immediacy\u2014a perception and reflectiveness in the fluid moment. Whether through his sensuous language or his powerful engagement with ideas, Gray\u2019s poetry continually opens us to a fresh involvement with the physical world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Cumulus<\/i>\u00a0<i>\u2013 Collected Poems\u00a0<\/i>was awarded the<i>\u00a0<\/i>2013 Western Australian Premier\u2019s Poetry Book Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cumulus: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reviews<\/a>: Cumulus: Collected Poems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN: 978-0-9808523-5-6 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0345pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 32.95 This book is a landmark in Australian poetry. For\u00a0Cumulus, Robert Gray has chosen all he wishes to retain from his eight volumes of poetry, some of it considerably and significantly revised. He has included here a new book, \u2018Nameless Earth\u2019, not previously published in Australia. [&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\/186"}],"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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}