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Wild by Libby Hart

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January-February 2015, no. 368

Wild by Libby Hart

Pitt Street Poetry $25 pb, 65 pp

Wild by Libby Hart

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January-February 2015, no. 368

Libby Hart’s new collection is ornate and knotty in a way that the reader would never divine from its cover, which is clear and white, with ‘wild’ in plain green typescript. It is essentially a bestiary, with birds of all kinds, as well as other creatures, including humans, in wild places, blown by winds and salt spray, or bringing wildness to ‘settled’ human habitations. There is a kind of emulsion of the direct and the opaque in her style that makes the mythic, fabulous elements appear to flow out of nature, directly, but in fact it is more as if we were in a wunderkammer of natural history, where the labels on the exhibits go beyond the call of duty and try to tell us everything about everything.

Peter Kenneally reviews 'Wild' by Libby Hart

Wild

by Libby Hart

Pitt Street Poetry $25 pb, 65 pp

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