Fragments

Antigone Kefala

Fragments
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Giramondo Publishing Co
Country
Australia
Published
1 September 2016
Pages
96
ISBN
9781925336191

Fragments

Antigone Kefala

Antigone  Kefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for the intensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small number  of poems she has published, each carefully worked, each magical or menacing in its effects.

Fragments is her first collection of new poems in almost twenty years, since the publication of New and Selected Poems in 1998, and  possibly her last. It follows her prose work Sydney Journals (Giramondo, 2008) of which one critic wrote, “Kefala can render the music of the moment so perfectly, she leaves one almost singing with the pleasure of it’. This skill in capturing the moment is just as evident in Fragments, though the territory is often darker now, as the poet patrols the liminal spaces between life and death, alert to the energies which lie in wait there. And such energies! Up, in the blue depth / a bird cut with its wings / the  light / such silk, that fell / and rose, heavily, / singing through the air.‘

Antigone Kefala has written four works of fiction, including The First Journey, The Island and Summer Visit, and four poetry collections, The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebookand Absence: New and Selected Poems as well as the non-fiction work Sydney Journals. Born in Romania of Greek parents, she lived in Greece and New Zealand before coming to Sydney.

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