Wild
Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney, 2014
65 pages, paperback, 19.8 x 12.8 cm
ISBN 9781922080387
Shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
Named one of the books of the year by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review.
“Drawing upon fable, myth and on the mystery and wonder of the natural world, Libby Hart’s poetry takes the reader into astonishing and beguiling territory. She is able to reveal relationships and realities that for most of us are hidden and beyond our ability to describe. Her language is seductive, questing; her vision is daring. She writes with a lyrical fecundity few can match. I love these poems for the way in which they embellish each other and keep faith with their convictions. These are poems I will be returning to again and again.”
Judith Beveridge
“Wild is a bestiary, a book of wonders, and what’s always apparent is the poet’s excitement at life itself. Hart possesses a wonderful lyric sensibility; her writing is as generous about the body as the wider world ... Crucially, she is attuned to the sonic possibilities of her poems.”
Robert Minhinnick
This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.