num_pages: 96
description: Holiday Coast Medusa is a verse novel, the first of a trilogy that Rebecca Edwards is writing. The narrative explores the contemporary implications of the Medusa myth as it tells the story of Steph, pregnant and fleeing along the Queensland coast in search of a relationship she can trust. It's a discontinuous narrative of considerable verve and power, and it never ceases to be poetry, even when it's at its grittiest or most dramatic. It's the best example of this genre since the current upsurge began, and follows on from her award-winning Scar Country."Rebecca Edwards... is a poet prepared to take risks and put her poetry right along a knife-edge... The voice in the poems is often gritty, self-aware, both tough and hardened; her poetry an arrangement of shards swift switchblades have whittled. Edwards knows exactly what she is doing." --Judith Beveridge, Island"Edwards is an artist of remarkable skill." --Debbie Comerford"This is... an intelligent and adroit poet...This poetry -- ripe, sinewy, energetic -- would be a good place to start if you are out of touch with what poetry can do. --Andrew Wallace, IdiomRebecca Edwards was born in Batlow, NSW, in 1969. She grew up in Nambucca Heads, the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Nauru and Japan, and now lives in Townsville, North Queensland. She is a poet and visual artist. Her previous books are Eating the Experience (Metro Press 1994) and Scar Country (UQP 2000). Holiday Coast Medusa, her first verse-novel, was completed with the assistance of a project grant from Arts Queensland. Rebecca has exhibited her artwork at Flinders Gallery, Townsville and at Atelier-Gym, Tokyo. She was Asialink writer-in-residence at Keio University in 2000-2001.
language: English
title: Holiday coast Medusa
titlecomplete: Holiday coast Medusa
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Five Islands Press