Time Machine - Anthony Lawrence
Clifton, Alison (2020) ‘Time Machine’ by Anthony Lawrence (Calanthe Press, 2019) Review. Stylus Lit. See full review at: http://styluslit.com/reviews/time-machine/
The latest collection by seminal Queensland poet Anthony Lawrence, Time Machine, is only thirty-four pages long, but the heft of the impressively nuanced poetry makes this chapbook punch above its weight. Replete with delightfully original imagery, Lawrence’s poetry feels at once fresh and familiar, as if an old friend were spinning a yarn that you had not heard before. …
To my mind, Lawrence is the most exciting poet writing in Australia today. He has attained this status through hard graft and attention to his craft. He has spent thirty years writing preceded by fourteen years of concentrated studying of poetry: the canonical, the unorthodox, and the overlooked. Time Machine is brilliant, relevant, and revelatory.
For an overview of Anthony Lawrence, see Beveridge, Judith (2014) ‘Anthony Lawrence’, Poetry International Archives, at: https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/24676/Anthony-Lawrence/en/tile
Lawrence is a highly emotional poet who can travel through physical and emotional landscapes charting and linking his perceptions to a larger, implied whole. His poems are energised by engagement with thresholds. He pays evocative attention to intimate detail and to bardic scope. At his best, his poetry is breathtaking for its risks, its depth and its linguistic accomplishments.
For an interview with Lawrence, see Coburn, Robbie (2014) ‘Anthony Lawrence – the blog post Southerly refused to publish’, Rochford Street Review,
Clifton, Alison (2020) ‘Time Machine’ by Anthony Lawrence (Calanthe Press, 2019) Review. Stylus Lit. See full review at: http://styluslit.com/reviews/time-machine/
The latest collection by seminal Queensland poet Anthony Lawrence, Time Machine, is only thirty-four pages long, but the heft of the impressively nuanced poetry makes this chapbook punch above its weight. Replete with delightfully original imagery, Lawrence’s poetry feels at once fresh and familiar, as if an old friend were spinning a yarn that you had not heard before. …
To my mind, Lawrence is the most exciting poet writing in Australia today. He has attained this status through hard graft and attention to his craft. He has spent thirty years writing preceded by fourteen years of concentrated studying of poetry: the canonical, the unorthodox, and the overlooked. Time Machine is brilliant, relevant, and revelatory.
For an overview of Anthony Lawrence, see Beveridge, Judith (2014) ‘Anthony Lawrence’, Poetry International Archives, at: https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/24676/Anthony-Lawrence/en/tile
Lawrence is a highly emotional poet who can travel through physical and emotional landscapes charting and linking his perceptions to a larger, implied whole. His poems are energised by engagement with thresholds. He pays evocative attention to intimate detail and to bardic scope. At his best, his poetry is breathtaking for its risks, its depth and its linguistic accomplishments.
For an interview with Lawrence, see Coburn, Robbie (2014) ‘Anthony Lawrence – the blog post Southerly refused to publish’, Rochford Street Review,
Clifton, Alison (2020) ‘Time Machine’ by Anthony Lawrence (Calanthe Press, 2019) Review. Stylus Lit. See full review at: http://styluslit.com/reviews/time-machine/
The latest collection by seminal Queensland poet Anthony Lawrence, Time Machine, is only thirty-four pages long, but the heft of the impressively nuanced poetry makes this chapbook punch above its weight. Replete with delightfully original imagery, Lawrence’s poetry feels at once fresh and familiar, as if an old friend were spinning a yarn that you had not heard before. …
To my mind, Lawrence is the most exciting poet writing in Australia today. He has attained this status through hard graft and attention to his craft. He has spent thirty years writing preceded by fourteen years of concentrated studying of poetry: the canonical, the unorthodox, and the overlooked. Time Machine is brilliant, relevant, and revelatory.
For an overview of Anthony Lawrence, see Beveridge, Judith (2014) ‘Anthony Lawrence’, Poetry International Archives, at: https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/24676/Anthony-Lawrence/en/tile
Lawrence is a highly emotional poet who can travel through physical and emotional landscapes charting and linking his perceptions to a larger, implied whole. His poems are energised by engagement with thresholds. He pays evocative attention to intimate detail and to bardic scope. At his best, his poetry is breathtaking for its risks, its depth and its linguistic accomplishments.
For an interview with Lawrence, see Coburn, Robbie (2014) ‘Anthony Lawrence – the blog post Southerly refused to publish’, Rochford Street Review,