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parallel equators by Nathan Shepherdson & camping underground by Greg McLaren

by Anders Villani •

January-February 2024, no. 461

'Poems reawaken in us,’ writes James Longenbach, ‘the pleasure of the unintelligibility of the world.’ They do so via ‘mechanisms of self-resistance’: disjunctive strategies that work, for Longenbach, to ‘resist our intelligence almost successfully’. What ‘almost’ means here is, of course, a matter of taste – and style. Nonetheless, this Romantic mandate – that poems achieve clarity by integrating opacity – invites a question fundamental to poetics: how much resistance is too much, or not enough?

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States of Poetry 2016 QLD Podcast | 'the black hand of Badia Elmi' by Nathan Shepherdson

by Hidden Author •

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One

In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Nathan Shepherdson reads his poem 'the black hand of Badia Elmi' which features in the 2016 Queensland anthology.

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'the notebooks of Mr & Mrs Emeritus' by Nathan Shepherdson | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

by Nathan Shepherdson •

States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

ironing the crease into her lung with your breath
the six words in end steam over blue charcoal in her eye

your hands arrive in separate envelopes on different days
and they are addressed to each other

even the earth in its eyedropper is not medicine to our mouths
it's the milk dispensed through holes in a flute that keeps us alive

Mr & Mrs Emeritus ...

'the black hand of Badia Elmi' by Nathan Shepherdson | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

by Nathan Shepherdson •

States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

the black hand of Badia Elmi corrected and cropped

Nathan Shepherdson

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<div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3110-states-of-poetry-queensland-statements-to-forget-when-remembered-by-nathan-shepherdson">'statements to forget when remembered' by Nathan Shepherdson | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/arts-update/arts-update-recent-reviews/author/5590-nathanshepherdson">Nathan Shepherdson</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><img src="/images/States_of_Poetry/01.jpg" alt="01" width="54" height="56" /> </p> <p>no one ha<br />s ever written <br />there is no gr <br />eater poem <br />than this one</p> <p>no one ha<br />s ever written <br />there is no gr <br />eater poem <br />then this one</p> <p> </p> <p> <img src="/images/States_of_Poetry/02.jpg" alt="02" width="45" height="52" /></p> <p>this poe ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3107-states-of-poetry-queensland-about-nathan-shepherdson">About Nathan Shepherdson | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/">Australian Book Review</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><span class="dropcap">N</span>athan Shepherdson was born in Brisbane. He is the author of five books of poetry. He has won a number of awards including the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, The Newcastle Poetry Prize, and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award. ... <a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3107-states-of-poetry-queensland-about-nathan-shepherdson">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2009/november-2009-no-316/287-november-2009-no-316/11024-kevin-gillam-reviews-apples-with-human-skin-by-nathan-shepherdson">Apples With Human Skin</a> <span>by Nathan Shepherdson</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/arts-update/arts-update-recent-reviews/author/21535-kevingillam">Kevin Gillam</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2009/november-2009-no-316" title="November 2009, no. 316">November 2009, no. 316</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2009/november-2009-no-316/287-november-2009-no-316/11024-kevin-gillam-reviews-apples-with-human-skin-by-nathan-shepherdson" title="Kevin Gillam reviews &#039;Apples With Human Skin&#039; by Nathan Shepherdson"> <img src="/images/ABR_Digitising_2023/Archive/apples.jpg" alt="Apples With Human Skin" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p style="vertical-align: middle;"><em>Apples with Human Skin </em>is a collection of taut but detached poems. Well crafted, with superb use of diction coupled with tight and inventive forms, the poems remain, however, unrelated to anything in modern-day usage or consciousness. There is a coolness to the writing which can become relentless. Imagery and line structure are evocative and precise, and Shepherdson successfully invents a minimalist syntax in each of the longer chaptered poems. There are also shards of social comment hidden amongst the granite-like structures.</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2009/november-2009-no-316/287-november-2009-no-316/11024-kevin-gillam-reviews-apples-with-human-skin-by-nathan-shepherdson">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2008/february-2008-no-298/133-february-2008-no-298/11904-2008-peter-porter-poetry-prize-shortlist">2008 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Shortlist</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/">Judith Bishop, Kevin Gillam, Nathan Shepherdson and Ross Clark</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2008/february-2008-no-298" title="February 2008, no. 298">February 2008, no. 298</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><h3>T/here</h3> <p><strong>By Judith Bishop</strong></p> <p>This is not a place for candles, or the scent of red cedar<br /> gathered on a hill to burn, or native plum, lit at night<br /> to hold the urgent dead at bay: you won’t wake to hear<br /> the click of brumbies’ hooves on a road that flows<br /> to where the humans are, or blink to see the mob<br /> jittering in the dawn air:<br />                                 this is not a house<br /> of language, in the first sense of the word, the one<br /> in which it made the world, this is not a place of origin,<br /> ground, or single source: this is not a road for drinking<br /> in the middle of the night: you won’t see<br /> the ink of fire moving night and day across</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2008/february-2008-no-298/133-february-2008-no-298/11904-2008-peter-porter-poetry-prize-shortlist">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2006/november-2006-no-286/304-november-2006-no-286/11790-melissa-ashley-reviews-sweeping-the-light-back-into-the-mirror-by-nathan-shepherdson">Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror</a> <span>by Nathan Shepherdson</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/arts-update/arts-update-recent-reviews/author/16100-melissaashley">Melissa Ashley</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2006/november-2006-no-286" title="November 2006, no. 286">November 2006, no. 286</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2006/november-2006-no-286/304-november-2006-no-286/11790-melissa-ashley-reviews-sweeping-the-light-back-into-the-mirror-by-nathan-shepherdson" title="Melissa Ashley reviews &#039;Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror&#039; by Nathan Shepherdson"> <img src="/images/ABR_Digitising_2023/Archive/sweeping.jpg" alt="Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p><span class="dropcap">R</span>ecipient of the 2005 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Nathan Shepherdson’s surrealist, free-verse début, <em>Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror</em>, is to be commended for its emotional bravery and its originality. At the collection’s Queensland launch, Shepherdson described what he had hoped to achieve in writing an extended elegy to his mother, Noela Mary Shepherdson. The poems were to be seen as gifts or letters – one for each of Noela’s seventy-two years – and represented a son’s attempt to honour his mother’s life.</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2006/november-2006-no-286/304-november-2006-no-286/11790-melissa-ashley-reviews-sweeping-the-light-back-into-the-mirror-by-nathan-shepherdson">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>   </div>   <div class="t3-sidebar t3-sidebar-right col col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-3 "> <div class="t3-module module-abr-ad-sidebar " id="Mod328"><div class="module-inner"><div class="module-ct"><div class='mod_ijoomlazone' id='ijoomlazone328'><div class='adg_row'><div class='adg_cell'></div></div></div> <div id="blocker-modal-background" class="blocker-modal-background" onclick="javascript:closeBlockerModal(); return false;" style="display: none;"> </div> <div id="blocker-modal-content" class="blocker-modal-content" style="display: none;"> <div class="blocker-modal-header"> <div class="blocker-modal-close"> 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