Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold/ Andy Jackson
ISBN: 9780994352880
Shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award
Each of these poems is a portrait of someone with or reputed to have had Marfan Syndrome. Many of the poems emerge out of personal interviews, while others are portraits of public figures: Abraham Lincoln, Akhenaten, Mary Queen of Scots , Edith Sitwell, Niccolo Paganini, John Tavener, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Robert Johnson, among others.
ISBN: 9780994352880
Shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award
Each of these poems is a portrait of someone with or reputed to have had Marfan Syndrome. Many of the poems emerge out of personal interviews, while others are portraits of public figures: Abraham Lincoln, Akhenaten, Mary Queen of Scots , Edith Sitwell, Niccolo Paganini, John Tavener, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Robert Johnson, among others.
ISBN: 9780994352880
Shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award
Each of these poems is a portrait of someone with or reputed to have had Marfan Syndrome. Many of the poems emerge out of personal interviews, while others are portraits of public figures: Abraham Lincoln, Akhenaten, Mary Queen of Scots , Edith Sitwell, Niccolo Paganini, John Tavener, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Robert Johnson, among others.
ANDY JACKSON is the author of Among the Regulars(2010) which was shortlisted for the the Kenneth Slessor Prize and highly commended in the Anne Elder Award. He has presented his poetry and also collaborative puppetry-poetry performances at dozens of events and festivals in Australia, Ireland, India, and the USA.
“Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold is a book of masks, thudding hearts, lovers, doctors, bodies and their question marks; speaking beyond places where ‘the only human forms/ are all the same’, Andy Jackson’s angular ventriloquisms are canny, fearless inventions.”
