{"id":578,"date":"2014-09-03T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2018-07-30T01:37:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:37:21","slug":"a-hunger-petra-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"A Hunger: Petra White"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This volume is now out of print. The Revised Edition of A Hunger, 2018, is now available.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This volume opens with a full-length book of new poems by Petra White<\/a>, A Hunger<\/em>. Bound-in with it are her two prior books, The Simplified World<\/em> and The Incoming Tide<\/em>. The new poems of A Hunger<\/em> are as lucid as they are mysterious, crafted for the ear, and for an emotional tone that slips delicately between mischievous irony and a cut-through bleakness or joy.<\/p>\n

A strong theme, in parts, is depression, where White presses beyond personal response into examining darkness itself, in a fierce art that deliberately gives and asks for no indulgence. The same goes for her love poems, in a sequence that plunges into the wild contradictions and poignancy of new love, with glances to Renaissance poets.<\/p>\n

Contemporary worlds \u2013 people and place \u2013 are foundation for this poetry, which is haunted by inscrutable time. Her well-known \u2018Southbank\u2019 from her first book is given a further turn in a new sequence, \u2018The Sound of Work\u2019 \u2013 this is one of the few contemporary poets to write convincingly of office work. In all, White\u2019s poems inhabit life\u2019s fragility with a light-footed constancy.<\/p>\n

By adding her prior two books, the Press intends not only to keep them in print, but to lay out for readers the fullness of the growth of an oeuvre. The poet has taken the opportunity to make a handful of excisions and revisions.<\/p>\n

Review: Martin Duwell: Cordite Poetry Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Review:\u00a0Geoff Page, Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa Gorton\u2019s Launch Speech<\/a>, 15 August 2014, University of Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This volume is now out of print. The Revised Edition of A Hunger, 2018, is now available. This volume opens with a full-length book of new poems by Petra White, A Hunger. Bound-in with it are her two prior books, The Simplified World and The Incoming Tide. The new poems of A Hunger are as […]<\/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\/578"}],"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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}