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RANDOM ADVENTURES IBD

MARTIN CHRISTMAS
GINNINDERRA PRESS
12 / 2019
9781760418168
Inglés

Sinopsis

',In Random Adventures, Martin Christmas brings an acute and sympathetic observer&rsquo,s eye to visual details in a scene. This is not unexpected given his keen skills as a photographer. The familiar is frequently conjured for the reader in a surprising way, offering an understanding of aspects of the world that we might otherwise take for granted.Christmas moves easily between three key subject areas: human interaction, the built environment (houses, walls, streets and industrial monoliths, for instance), and the backdrop of a natural world that seems increasingly threatened. The human dimension proves particularly rich ground for his poetry. Christmas highlights significant disparities in wealth and social capital among us, with a focus on such people as the disenfranchised poor forced to collect recyclable cans, a frail and elderly couple trying to negotiate a road crossing, or a teenaged shoplifter challenging a store owner. In the carefully realised 254 to Dreamtime, an Aboriginal passenger falls asleep during a bus ride and inadvertently rests her head on another stranger&rsquo,s shoulder. It is an image rendered without overstatement and all the more powerful for that. Christmas is able to seize on other facets of suburban street life&mdash,dumped furniture, the rituals of bin night, and a packed trailer indicating the collapse of a couple&rsquo,s relationship. He mixes humour with wit and a constant sense of awe at the natural world.áRandom Adventures shows Martin Christmas maturing as a poet, and is an important step forward in his writing.', &ndash, Steve Evans, former Director of the Creative Writing Program, Flinders University

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