Burn: Audio Poems.
Burn: Audio Poems (2022) is a 10-part series that introduces listeners to a small selection of poetry from Burn (Lepus Print, 2022), the latest collection by Australian poet, Libby Hart. In Burn: Audio Poems, Libby shares one poem per episode. She also discusses the motivation behind each poem and how she approached writing them.
Episode 01.
I roll you the sun.
Episode 02.
Atlas.
Episode 03.
The billions.
Episode 04.
Old Healesville Road.
Episode 05.
The engine room.
Episode 06.
Kinbrace.
Episode 07.
Incantation.
Episode 08.
Ash.
Episode 09.
Meet me in the love-burned orchard.
Episode 10.
Fyre.
About the book.
Burn, confronts the emotional archaeology of the past and an Anthropocentric present. Burn is a deeply personal and tenacious examination of what it means to live in the world today as we face climate catastrophe. At the heart of this collection is truth-telling and the act of honouring lived experience. With a steadfast gaze, Hart scrutinises power relationships, histories, trauma, vulnerability, strength, consequences and smouldering desires. Burn is a passionate lament that bears witness to what illuminates and what destroys.
Burn
Lepus Print, Ballinfull (Ireland), 2022
86 pages, paperback, 20.4 x 14.0 cm
ISBN 9781916187023