Fire work
Subtitle: last poems
Publisher: Gloria SMH Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780994527547
Subjects: Australian poetry
Description: Readers of Aileen Kelly's earlier books will recognise that in these final poems she is at the height of her power. The poems are abrupt, distilled and beautifully rhythmed. Life is her object and her passion, as always. The language has the essential autonomy of poetry, and yet these poems are directly personal, involving family and friends, their bodies and her own, and her own experience among delicately defined landscapes. Inevitably, it seems, poem after poem is also metaphysical, and socially aware. Perhaps the briefest description, however, is the best: here is wit and imagination.