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Modewarre is the indigenous Wathaurong word for musk duck. Through this icon of land and water, Patricia Sykes explores various histories - her own, her forebears, the wider histories of identity and place – in poems that are as concentrated as pearls. It sweeps its subjects along in a flow of striking images and strong feelings, these buoyed by an intelligent sense of poetic structure and modulated by a sometimes ironic eye.

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"Fast, precise poetry, Sykes works in the in-between area of named and nameless feelings. [H]er poems ... leap over boundaries, using language as a balletic or gestural medium." Martin Harrison, "Australian Book Review"

Modewarre: Home Ground

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      Publisher: Spinifex Press
      Publication Date: 10/11/2004
      ISBN13: 9781876756505, 978-1876756505
      ISBN10: 1876756500
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Modewarre is the indigenous Wathaurong word for musk duck. Through this icon of land and water, Patricia Sykes explores various histories - her own, her forebears, the wider histories of identity and place – in poems that are as concentrated as pearls. It sweeps its subjects along in a flow of striking images and strong feelings, these buoyed by an intelligent sense of poetic structure and modulated by a sometimes ironic eye.

      Trade Review
      "Fast, precise poetry, Sykes works in the in-between area of named and nameless feelings. [H]er poems ... leap over boundaries, using language as a balletic or gestural medium." Martin Harrison, "Australian Book Review"

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