Review
"Alison Croggon... is one of the most assured of a new generation of Australian poets." A Readers' Guide To Contemporary Australian Poetry; "Often shifting and allusive, her poems can convey the 'strangeness of dream'... She can slip in and out of styles as readily as an amphibian slips from land to water." Australian Book Review"
Product Description
The Common Flesh is Alison Croggon's third full-length collection of poetry. It is a compelling work in which the often very personal subject-matter of the poems is expressed, as the poet says, "to create a quality of tension between raw emotional immediacy and a formal poetic aesthetic...". With their structural delicacy, emotional impact and archetypal resonances, these are powerful and enduring poems.
About the Author
Alison Croggon writes poetry, prose, criticism and texts for theatre. Her books of poetry include This is the Stone, (Penguin Books Australia), The Blue Gate (Black Pepper Press) and Mnemosyne (Wild Honey Press). Awards include the Anne Elder and Dame Mary Gilmore Prizes. Her theatre texts have been produced by companies across Australia. She was the 2000 Australia Council writer in residence at Cambridge University, UK, and edits the webzine Masthead.
